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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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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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