CCSDS 122.0 makes use of a three-level two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (DWT) using a biorthogonal 9/7 tap filters, followed by a bit-plane encoder.
It has some design commonalities with ICER and JPEG 2000 that use similar wavelet coding schemes.
The effects of a single bit error can propagate to corrupt reconstructed image data to the end of the affected segment.
Measures must be taken to minimize the number of potential bit errors on the transmission link.
In case the encoded bitstream is to be transmitted over a CCSDS space link, several protocols that have built in error correction and detection can be used to transfer the sequence of segments (the highest coding level in this image format).