This appears to be the Data Compression Blue Book published by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. It’s a nice document, but I’m not sure if the standard described here is actually in use. As is so often the case with standards documents, I find myself yearning for some accompanying reference code. Alas, there is none that I know of.

Note: a related document discussing performance characteristics of the recommendate can be found

here

http://www.ccsds.org/documents/121x0b1.pdf