ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 15887 Second edition 2013-06-01 Space data and information transfer systems Lossless data compression Systemes detransfert des informations et donnees spatiales Compressiondedonnéessansperte Reference number ISO 15887:2013(E) @ISO 2013 Not for Resale ISO15887:2013(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ISO2013 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. ISO copyright office Case postale 56.CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published inSwitzerland @ ISO 2013-All rights reserved Not for Resale ISO15887:2013(E) Foreword Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies technicalcommittees.Eachmemberbodyinterestedinasubjectforwhichatechnicalcommitteehasbeen established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations,governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with isO, also take part in the work. isO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) onallmatters of electrotechnical standardization. The procedures used to develop this document and those intended for its further maintenance are described in the IsO/lEC Directives, Part 1. In particular the different approval criteria needed for the different types of IsO documents should be noted. This document was drafted in accordance with the editorial rules of the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. www.iso.org/directives rights. isO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Details of any patent patentdeclarationsreceived.www.iso.org/patents Any trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not constitutean endorsement. Iso15887 was prepared by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) (as CCSDS 121.0-B-2, May 2012) and was adopted (without modifications except those stated in Clause 2 of this International Standard)by Technical Committee ISO/TC20o,Aircraft and spacevehicles,Subcommittee SC 13, Spacedataand information transfersystems. which have been technically revised. ii