Image compression systems on board satellites

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 64, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 988-1005

  Yu, Guoxia ^a   Vladimirova, Tanya ^a   Sweeting, Martin N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compression system; Disaster monitoring; Image compression; On board; Space missions

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

BOARD SATELLITES; COMPRESSION METHODS; COMPRESSION SYSTEM; DEVELOPING TRENDS; DISASTER MONITORING; GROUND STATIONS; MASS MEMORIES; MULTI-SATELLITE MISSIONS; ON-BOARD; ON-BOARD IMAGE COMPRESSIONS; SPACE MISSIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATIONS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 62049083365     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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