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NITRO is a full-fledged, extensible library solution for reading and writing National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) files, a U.S. Department of Defense standard format. It is written in cross-platform C, with bindings available for other languages (C++, Java, Python). NITRO was originally developed by MDA Information Systems LLC in 2004 and is continuously being improved. It is now released as open-source software under the Lesser GNU Public License.