Flight Test Digitized/Compressed Video Spectrum Allocation

Abstract

This document was prepared by the Range Commanders Council (RCC) frequency Management Group (FMG) in response to RCC task FM-4, Flight Test Video Encryption System. It is intended to identify a common, recommended frequency band for the operation of range flight test digitized/compressed video systems. In the early 1980s, the National Security Agency (NSA) recommended that all test range communications transmissions be secured. At the time, all range flight test video transmissions were made using nonencrypted conventional analog video systems. To use standard NSA encryptors, it became necessary to digitize and compress these analog video signals. By the late 1980s, it became obvious that a standard digitized/compressed video system, operating in a common portion of the frequency spectrum, needed to be developed. This task was initiated to determine the common frequency spectrum to be used by this digitized/compressed video system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA239535

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cryptography
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • National Security
  • New Mexico
  • Security
  • Spectra
  • Standards
  • Transmitters
  • Video
  • Video Signals

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.