... a collaborative image coding and transmission system over distributed wireless sensor network We consider exploiting both spatial and temporal correlations among the sensor images to reduce overall ... (1) Transmission operations (a) Transmit the background of the target along the route of sensor 1, sensor 2, sensor 3, and remote sensor and another route of sensor 4, sensor 5, sensor 6, and ... in sensors and 2, sensors and 3, sensors and 5, and sensors and 6, respectively (c) At each sensor, whenever a target is detected by applying the algorithm in Section 2.2 on a new captured image, ...