What is the difference between .vicar and .jp2?
- Extension
- .vicar
- .jp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- Raster image format developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; stores an image that has been taken on a mission by NASA's spacecraft; also contains information that describes the structure and type of data along with a history of processing that has been done to the image.
- A JP2 file is a compressed bitmap image created using JPEG 2000 Core Coding. It incorporates a wavelet compression algorithm instead of Digital Cosine Transform (DCT) compression, which is used by standard JPEG images. JP2 files can be stored using lossy and lossless compression.
- MIME Type
- image/x-vicar
- image/jp2
- Sample
- sample.vicar
- sample.jp2
- Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia