Tuesday, 11 February 2003: 11:45 AM
Weather Data Compression
Significant reductions in weather data size without loss of
any useful information can be accomplished thorough the use of data
compression and rounding to the least significant digit. The source
of the weather data's compression can be traced to the data's
smoothness and rounding. Rounding off the insignificant digits
and extracting the smoothness results in increased symbol frequency.
Common applications such as gzip and bzip2 encode frequent
symbols with less bits. Hence, more data may be sent over a
fixed bandwidth channel if it is first compressed. This paper
compares several compression techniques with respect to twelve
kilometer weather data from the ETA model.
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