The purpose of BS ISO 21077:2016 is to provide a common reference and framework of standards for digital motion video and imagery, and to provide recommendations for utilization of international standards for sharing or distributing motion video and imagery between spacecraft elements and ground systems.

The scope of this document includes traditional real-time streaming video and television, including human and robotic spacecraft-to-spacecraft and spacecraft-to-ground systems, as well as video recorded and distributed later, either as a real-time stream or as a file transfer. In this context, real-time streaming includes all modes where video is sent from a spacecraft in a continuous stream and is intended for immediate use when received, regardless of the latency of the transmission path. Other specialized motion imagery applications, such as high-speed scientific motion imagery and multi-spectral motion imagery, are not addressed in this document. However, if a specialized imagery camera system has a requirement to interface to spacecraft systems in a video mode, it would be required to match these interfaces.

Ground-systems-to-ground-systems video distribution is obviously a key component of the entire video system. However, this is not the primary focus of this document. Currently, there are significant differences in the ways mission video products are exchanged between the various space agencies on the ground. This is the result of differences in network topologies between space agencies, and agreements for video sharing. Those differences preclude there being a standard methodology for delivering video imagery between agencies. Prior to the commencement of video transmission between space agencies, system design reviews and performance testing should be done between the ground systems in use to assure operability when video imagery comes from spacecraft.


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ITU-R BT.601-7:2011
SMPTE ST 259:2008
ITU-R BT.1120-8:2012
SMPTE ST 292-1:2012
TIA/EIA-644-A:2001
ITUR BT.1577:2002
SMPTE ST 305:2005
ITU-R BT.653-3:1998
SMPTE ST 12-1:2008
SMPTE ST 12-2:2008
SMPTE ST 291:2011
SMPTE ST 334-1:2007
SMPTE ST 335:2012
SMPTE RP 210.10:2007
SMPTE ST 2036-3:2010
ITU-R BT.1543:2001
SMPTE ST 296:2012
ITU-R BT.709-5:2002
SMPTE ST 274:2008
SMPTE ST 372:2011
SMPTE ST 424:2006
SMPTE ST 2036-1:2009
SMPTE ST 2036-2-2008
SMPTE ST 2048-1:2011
SMPTE ST 2048-2:2011
ITU-R BT.2020-1:2014
ISO/IEC 14496-10:2014
ITU-T H.264:2012
ITU-R BT.1301-1:2011
ITU-R BT .656-5:2007
ISO/IEC 15444-3:2007
ISO/IEC 13818-7:2006
IEC 60958-3:2006
IEC 60958-3:2006/A1:2009
CCSDS 702.1-B-1:2012
CCSDS 727 .0-B-4:2007
CCSDS 706.1-G-2:2015
RFC 2616:1999
ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003
ISO/IEC 15444-8:2007
CCSDS 734.1-B-1:2015
CCSDS 734.2-B-1


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