© 1975 by British Computer Society
The on-ground compression of satellite data
Electrical Engineering Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Exhibition Road, London, UK
This paper deals with aspects of the on-ground compression of satellite data. The Shannon-Fano, Run-Length and Hadamard Transformation methods of data compression are considered and the results obtained when applying the techniques to the compression of ESRO 1 satellite data are presented and compared.
Received December 1973.
* Electrical Engineering Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BT