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Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)

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ANSI NCITS 320-1998; Chain; Data quality; Digital line graph; DLG; FGDC; FIPS 173; FIPS PUB 173; G-polygon; G-ring; Layer; Manifold; Map accuracy; NIST; Pixel; Profile, topological; Profiles; Raster; SDTS; Standards, consentual; Vector (TVP); Voxel

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The Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) is a standard whose purpose is to promote and facilitate the data exchange of digital geo-referenced spatial data, attributes, and metadata between different computer systems and applications.

The SDTS was first ratified in 1992 by the US Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 173. SDTS was then promoted to become a national standard and it was subsequently ratified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1998 as National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS) 320-1998. SDTS is also endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) as one of the core...

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  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geospatial Information Office, Rolla, MO, USA

    Phyllis Altheide

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  1. Phyllis Altheide
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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Altheide, P. (2017). Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS). In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1259

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