An environmental research organization operates a remote weather station that must transmit large, daily logs of atmospheric sensor data (consisting of numerical readings and timestamps) back to a central server via a slow, high-cost satellite connection.
Explain how the organization can use a compression utility to improve the efficiency of this transmission, stating and justifying the type of compression that must be used.
11 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Utility software. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.