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The Raster Product Format (RPF) is a standard data structure for goespatial 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 the 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 system.

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