In order to improve the coding efficiency for intra-prediction in H.264,we propose a novel intra-prediction mode of the H.264standard for aerial area CCD camera in this paper.The idea of the proposed intra-prediction mode is that each pixel within a block is predicted by a weighted sum of its neighbors,according to an N-th order linear predictor.The weights are obtained from reconstructed data in the neighbor blocks which are selected b y l₁-norm-based approach.Therefore,the decoder doesn′t need to convey the weights to the decoder,which c an be very time consuming.Finally,the proposed intra-prediction mode is implemented in H.264reference software JM17.6.The ex perimental results show that the proposed intra prediction algorithm has better rate-distortion (RD) performance.Compare d with the intra prediction for regular H.264standard,the proposed method could improve the average peak signal to-noise rat io (PSNR) by 0.57－0.17dB fo r images,0.05－0.14dB for CIF-resolution sequences,0.01－0.05dB for 720p50-resolution sequences,while the bit-reductions are 9.71－3.94%, 1.23%－1.52%,0.25%－0.47%,respectively.It is suitable for the application in ae rial area CCD camera.