Data Compression For National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Satellite Systems
Robert F. Rice, A. Schlutsmeyer · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1980
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) receives high quality infrared weather images from each of its two geostationary weather satellites at an average data rate of 57 kilobits/second. These images are currently distributed to field stations over 3 kilohertz analog phone lines. The resulting loss in image quality renders the images unacceptable for proposed digital image processing. This paper documents the study leading to a current effort to implement a microprocessor-based universal noiseless coder/decoder to satisfy NOAA's requirements of high quality, good coverage and timely transmission of its infrared images.