2. Origin of the Invention
The invention described herein was made in the performance of work under a NASA contract, and is subject to the provisions of Public Law 96-517 (35 USC 202) in which the contractor has elected to retain title.
2. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates, in general to real-time data compression of raw imaging data for high resolution imaging radar systems, and in particular to a block adaptive quantizer and an associated VLSI processor to provide real-time data compression for high resolution imaging radar systems.