Key Challenges & Solutions
Massive Imaging Volumes & Limited Onboard Storage
Hyperspectral imagers capture hundreds of narrow spectral bands per pixel, generating gigabytes of data per scene. Satellites and UAVs have restricted onboard storage, making continuous capture difficult.
How Byte2Bit solves it:
- Prism delivers up to 50% higher compression efficiency compared to JPEG-LS and CCSDS, drastically reducing storage requirements.
- Allows more scenes per orbit/flight and longer missions without flushing data.
- Ideal for CubeSats, micro-satellites, UAV payloads, and edge processing units.
Downlink Bottlenecks During Real-Time Transmission
EO platforms often rely on narrowband or delayed communication windows. High-rate hyperspectral streams overwhelm available downlink bandwidth, causing data backlogs and reduced collection opportunities.
How Byte2Bit solves it:
- Prism enables real-time onboard compression, shrinking transmission volume before it ever hits the radio.
- Works alongside low-bandwidth plugins for lightweight spectral telemetry.
- Maximizes useful downlink per pass and speeds delivery of imagery to ground stations.
Slow Retrieval for Analytics & Delayed Processing Pipelines
Conventional hyperspectral formats require full decoding before accessing specific spectral or spatial regions, slowing down critical tasks such as crop analysis, anomaly detection, environmental monitoring, and defense applications.
How Byte2Bit solves it:
- Prism supports random access to spatial and spectral slices, enabling instant retrieval of regions of interest.
- Analysts can jump directly to wavelengths or coordinates without full decompression.
- Significantly accelerates downstream AI/ML pipelines, environmental models, and mapping workflows.
Byte2Bit Products Used
Use Cases
Satellite Missions
Enable efficient onboard compression for satellite missions.
- Real-time downlink
- Extended mission duration
- CubeSat and micro-satellite support
UAV & Aerial Surveys
Support aerial survey systems with efficient data capture.
- More scenes per flight
- Longer missions
- Edge processing support
Environmental Monitoring
Accelerate environmental analysis with instant data access.
- Crop analysis
- Anomaly detection
- AI/ML pipeline acceleration
Benefits
Compression Efficiency
50%
Better Than Jpeg-ls & Ccsds
Random Access
Instant
Spatial/spectral Retrieval
Downlink Capacity
Maximized
Real-time Transmission
Storage
2X
More Scenes Per Mission