416 pgs, 2013, Spie

ISBN 9780819497871

This book provides a global review of optical satellite image and data compression theories, algorithms, and system implementations. Consisting of nine chapters, it describes a variety of lossless and near-lossless data-compression techniques and three international satellite-data-compression standards. The author shares his firsthand experience and research results in developing novel satellite-data-compression techniques for both onboard and on-ground use, user assessments of the impact that data compression has on satellite data applications, building hardware compression systems, and optimizing and deploying systems. Written with both postgraduate students and advanced professionals in mind, this handbook addresses important issues of satellite data compression and implementation, and it presents an end-to-end treatment of data compression technology.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1: Needs for Data Compression and Image Quality Metrics

Ch. 2: Lossless Satellite Data Compression

Ch. 3: International Standards for Spacecraft Data Compression

Ch. 4: Vector Quantization Data Compression

Ch. 5: Onboard Near-Lossless Data Compression Techniques

Ch. 6: Optimizing the Performance of Onboard Data Compression

Ch. 7: Data Compression Engines aboard a Satellite

Ch. 8: User Acceptability Study of Satellite Data Compression

Ch. 9: Hyperspectral Image Browser for Online Satellite Data Analysis and Distribution