An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) wireless network
has bursty and high error rates.  To combat the 
contiguous bit loss due to damaged or dropped packets, 
this paper presents a code packetization and image reconstruction 
scheme.  The packetization method 
distributes the loss in both frequency and spatial 
domains to reduce the chance that adjacent DCT blocks 
lose the same frequency components.  The
image reconstruction takes into consideration the spatial
characteristics represented by the frequency components.
Combining these two approaches is able to reconstruct
the damaged images more accurately, even under very
high loss rates.  In addition, since the reconstruction
technique is computational efficient, it conserves 
system resources and power consumption, which
are restrictive in mobile computers.