[gdal-dev] Long Term Prognosis for JPEG 2000

Wed Mar 31 08:57:43 PDT 2021

I guess it would depend on whether they used ASICs or FPGAs. For FPGAs, they could update hardware algorithms remotely.

On 3/31/21, 11:31 AM, "gdal-dev on behalf of Andrew C Aitchison" <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of andrew at aitchison.me.uk> wrote:

    On Tue, 30 Mar 2021, Kurt Schwehr wrote:

    > Jp2k is likely to continue with heavy use for a long time to come.  There
    > are lots of hardware encoders in our solar system

    So NASA may not be able to repeat the trick of upgrading the compression
    software in a remote space probe (was that for Voyager or Pioneer ?)

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    Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
     			andrew at aitchison.me.uk
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