How is satellite data represented?

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From: Jeff Sidell
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 13:57

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I'm wondering how incoming satellite data is usually
represented?  Specifically, I'm talking about satellites
(and ground-based sensors, for that matter) that
measure natural phenomena, like cloud cover, rainfall,
ionospheric activity, etc.

When I say "represented," I don't mean the physical
medium, which I assume is tapes, disks or CD's.
I mean is it compressed?  If so, how?  If not, 
then what does the data look like?  What is the
usual schema, if one exists?

Some background:  I'm a grad student here at U of Ill. in Urbana-
Champaign working in database research.  I'm interested in investigating
the possibility of representing very large data sets (like satellite
data) as iterated function sets and seeing if this would be a viable
tool to use for DBMS's.


Jeff Sidell

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