Damming the data stream from space
Abstract
The Polar Platform of the NASA Space Station will be a highly complex data collection system with transmission rates placing large burdens on the ground segment in terms of data processing, dissemination, and archiving. The candidate areas for onboard instrument processing are data compression, bulk correction, image interpretation, and supporting instrumentation. The major task of onboard processing should be transmission bandwidth reduction which can be achieved most efficiently via data compression.
- Publication:
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Space
- Pub Date:
- December 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987Space...3...30S
- Keywords:
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- Airborne/Spaceborne Computers;
- Columbus Space Station;
- Data Transmission;
- Downlinking;
- Spacecraft Communication;
- Computer Systems Design;
- Data Compression;
- Data Reduction;
- Image Processing;
- Space Commercialization;
- Space Station Polar Platforms;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking