Glossary for Geospatial Science

CCITT Comité Consultatif Internationale de Télégraphique et Téléphonique (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee):  A standards organization that has developed a series of communications protocols for the facsimile transmission of black-and-white images over telephone lines and data networks.  The CCITT acronym in TNTmips represents a type of lossless raster compression that is used for 1-bit images.