Remote sensing image compression for deep space based on region of interest

A major limitation for deep space communication is the limited bandwidths available. The downlink rate using X-band with an L2 halo orbit is estimated to be of only 5.35 GB/d. However, the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) will produce about 600 GB/d. Clearly the volume of data to downlink must be reduced by at least a factor of 100. One of the resolutions is to encode the data using very low bit rate image compression techniques. An very low bit rate image compression method based on region of interest(ROI) has been proposed for deep space image. The conventional image compression algorithms which encode the original data without any data analysis can maintain very good details and haven't high compression rate while the modern image compressions with semantic organization can have high compression rate even to be hundred and can't maintain too much details. The algorithms based on region of interest inheriting from the two previews algorithms have good semantic features and high fidelity, and is

Remote sensing image compression for deep space based on region of interest

A major limitation for deep space communication is the limited bandwidths available. The downlink rate using X-band with an L2 halo orbit is estimated to be of only 5.35 GB/d. However, the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) will produce about 600 GB/d. Clearly the volume of data to downlink must be reduced by at least a factor of 100. One of the resolutions is to encode the data using very low bit rate image compression techniques. An very low bit rate image compression method based on region of interest(ROI) has been proposed for deep space image. The conventional image compression algorithms which encode the original data without any data analysis can maintain very good details and haven't high compression rate while the modern image compressions with semantic organization can have high compression rate even to be hundred and can't maintain too much details. The algorithms based on region of interest inheriting from the two previews algorithms have good semantic features and high fidelity, and is therefore suitable for applications at a low bit rate. The proposed method extracts the region of interest by texture analysis after wavelet transform and gains optimal local quality with bit rate control. The Result shows that our method can maintain more details in ROI than general image compression algorithm(SPIHT) under the condition of sacrificing the quality of other uninterested areas,