Publication Information

S. R. Tate. Report on the Workshop on Data and Image Compression Needs and Uses in the Scientific Community, in CESDIS Technical Report, TR-93-99, 1993. MiscellaneousReport

Abstract

This is a report on a workshop that was organized in participation with Jim Tilton of NASA, and publicized and assisted by the CESDIS office at Goddard. This workshop was designed to enhance communication between researchers in data and image compression, and the potential users of data compression in the scientific community. The goals of the workshop were twofold: education and collaboration.

The workshop hosted 10 presentations, with talks on data compression by Tassos Markas, Jeff Vitter, Irving Linares, Edward Seller, and Manohar Mareboyana, talks on scientific data use and collection by Gene Feldman, Mary James, and Jim Pfaendtner, and related talks on managing large amounts of scientific data by Kan Salem and Robert Cromp. There were 58 registered attendees of the workshop, with affiliations from industry, government, and academia.

The meeting was a productive one with contacts made between physical scientists and compression researchers. Contacts were made with Immanuel Freedman of the Cosmology Data. Analysis Center who was interested in the vector quantization work developed by this project. Contacts were also made with the various users of scientific data who will supply test data for our compression projects. The discussion period was useful in understanding the needs of the scientific users, and was a motivation for the work in Iossless compression of multispectral images described earlier in this report.