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Glossary

Access unit

A coded video frame or other independently timed media unit. MISB timestamp messages are associated with video access units.

Class 1 motion imagery

The MPEG-2 Transport Stream form commonly associated with live STANAG 4609 FMV. MISP also defines other classes and storage profiles.

FMV

Full Motion Video: motion imagery carried with synchronized metadata and, optionally, audio.

IMAP

Integer Mapping: the MISB method for representing physical values as compact integers. ST 1201 defines IMAPA and IMAPB mappings and their special values.

KLV

Key-Length-Value encoding defined by SMPTE ST 336. The key identifies the data, the BER length gives its size, and the value contains a primitive value or a nested set.

KLVA

The MPEG registration used to identify KLV metadata carried in an MPEG transport stream.

Local Set

A KLV value containing shorter tag-length-value items whose tag meanings are defined by a parent standard, such as ST 0601.

MISP

Motion Imagery Standards Profile: the technical profile adopted by STANAG 4609 Edition 5.

MISMMS

Motion Imagery Standards Minimum Metadata Set. MISB ST 0902 defines the minimum metadata population and cadence used by the corresponding profile.

MISB

Motion Imagery Standards Board, publisher of the metadata and motion-imagery standards used by this project.

MPTS

Multiple Program Transport Stream: one MPEG-TS multiplex containing more than one program.

PCR

Program Clock Reference: the MPEG-TS clock samples a decoder uses to recover the program time base.

PES

Packetized Elementary Stream: the MPEG Systems layer that groups video, audio, or metadata payloads and may carry PTS and DTS timestamps.

PID

Packet Identifier: the 13-bit number that identifies a packet stream inside MPEG-TS.

PMT

Program Map Table: the PSI table that declares a program's PCR, video, audio, metadata, and other elementary streams.

PSI

Program Specific Information: MPEG-TS tables used to discover programs and their streams. The PAT and PMT are the central tables for this library.

PTS

Presentation Time Stamp: the media time at which a PES access unit is presented. MPEG-TS PTS uses a 90 kHz clock and wraps at 33 bits.

Report-on-Change

A metadata rule in which unchanged values may be omitted from later packets. Receivers retain a value until it is replaced, cleared, or expires.

SDP

Session Description Protocol. An SDP document can describe the address, port, and RTP format used to receive an MPEG transport stream.

SPTS

Single Program Transport Stream: an MPEG-TS multiplex containing one program. LiveTransportTransformer emits the selected program as SPTS.

ST 0601

The MISB UAS Datalink Local Set, widely used for aircraft, sensor, frame, and target metadata in FMV.

ST 0902

The MISB Motion Imagery Standards Minimum Metadata Set profile.

ST 0903

The MISB Video Moving Target Indicator standard. It represents detections, targets, tracks, masks, chips, algorithms, ontologies, and related geometry.

STANAG 4609

The NATO standardization agreement for digital motion imagery. Edition 5 adopts MISP-2019.1 as its technical profile.

Universal Set

A KLV set whose child items use 16-byte Universal Labels rather than short local tags.

VMTI

Video Moving Target Indicator metadata defined by MISB ST 0903.

ZLI

Zero Length Item: a Local Set item with an empty value. In Report-on-Change metadata it clears the receiver's current value for that item.