MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON TILED WAVELET-LIKE TRANSFORM AND DISTINCT BITSTREAMS FOR DISTINCT GROUPS OF BIT PLANES

An image process system tiles an image data array, processing the tiles in a predefined order. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Distinct groups of bit planes of the transform coefficients are stored in distinct bitstreams or distinct portions of a file.