The historical aspects of the emergence of the problem of noise-resistant image encoding are considered using the example of delivering photographs of the surface of Mars to Earth. Using the example of generalization of orthogonal matrices by quasi-orthogonal ones, the expansion of the number of matrices for use in image conversion for transmission in noise communication channels is shown.

Keywords: Hadamard matrices, Hadamard coding, Reed-Solomon codes, orthogonal matrices, quasi-orthogonal matrices, noise-resistant image encoding