Doug Bostrom<p>"With the increased spatial resolution and number of spectral channels, each LandIS instrument is expected to generate up to 1.8 Gbps of raw science data, excluding embedded telemetry and metadata. Given the mission’s primary goal of capturing imagery of all land surfaces and inland water bodies, which collectively cover approximately 30% of the Earth’s surface, each LandIS instrument could produce nearly 6 TB of image data per day. The management of this large volume of data, particularly the storage and transmission to ground stations, presents a significant challenge for the mission architecture. Historically, the Landsat Ground Network has supported X-band frequencies with roughly a 384 Mbps downlink rate to transmit science data (Masek et al., 2020, Irons and Dwyer, 2010). However, with approximately 105 min of contact time per day, the available data transmission volume would be insufficient to fully downlink the expected daily generated data volume, leaving a significant portion of the science image data undelivered. To address this issue, a shift to higher downlink rates using Ka-band frequencies is necessary. With potential Ka-band downlink rates of 2.6 Gbps, and the same 105 min of contact time per day, the transmission of more than 2 TB of data per day would be possible. Although this represents a notable improvement over X-band, this Ka-band system still cannot accommodate the full volume of data generated by the LandIS instruments."</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/LandSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandSat</span></a> <br><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ImageCompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImageCompression</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425725003335?dgcid=rss_sd_all" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0034425725003335?dgcid=rss_sd_all</span></a></p>