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The Raster Product Format (RPF) is a standard data structure for geospatial databases composed of rectangular arrays of pixel values (e.g. in digitized maps or images) in compressed or uncompressed form. RPF is intended to enable application software to use the data in RPF format on computer-readable interchange media directly without further manipulations or transformation.

Each product category that represents a single instantiation of RPF, or a family of instantiations of RPF, shall be described in a separate product specification that makes appropriate reference to this RPF standard and its companion standard, MIL-STD-2411-1, which defines registered data values to be used with RPF files.

The RPF is intended to define a common format for interchange of raster data between producers of such data in DoD and users of the data, to help facilitate interoperability among mission-critical systems.

The Military Departments, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Organizations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Defense Agencies of the Department of Defense (collectively known as DoD components) shall use the information in this standard in preparing and accessing digital geographic data required or specified to be in RPF.

This standard is UNCLASSIFIED. The procedures and processes presented herein may be used for classified processing where appropriate security provisions are added.

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