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7 Terrain Level of Detail
can optionally be stored as tiles. A public domain library, called
libgeotiff,
is
available for creating software that can read and write GeoTIFF files.
BT:
The binary terrain format was developed by Ben Discoe as part of the Virtual
Terrain Project (VTP). BT files are simple, compact files that use a file name
extension
of.bt.
The 256-byte header sequence includes the grid dimensions, the
data type (floating point or integer), the projection (lat/long or UTM), and the
bounding box in geographic coordinates. See
www.vterrain.org/.
GeoVRML:
The GeoVRML file format was specifically ...