Channel Coding and Data Compression System Considerations for Efficient Communication of Planetary Imaging Data

摘要

This report presents end-to-end system considerations involving channel coding and data compression which could drastically improve the efficiency in communicating pictorial information from future planetary spacecraft. In addition to presenting new and potentially significant system considerations, this report attempts to fill a need for a comprehensive tutorial which makes much of this very subject accessible to readers whose disciplines lie outside of communication theory.nMuch of this material has been the basis of proposals for future Mariner and Pioneer missions under the title "Advanced Imaging Communica¬tion System (AICS)."