Predictive coding techniques are attractive for image codecs because they can yield high compression efficiency while spending few computational resources. In remote sensing, predictive techniques are employed in prom...
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Predictive coding techniques are attractive for image codecs because they can yield high compression efficiency while spending few computational resources. In remote sensing, predictive techniques are employed in prominent standards to transmit images captured by Earth Observation (EO) satellites. Although EO satellites have full duplex capacity, compression standards for spatial data are devised to use the downlink only. Recently, we presented a dual-linkimagecoding system that employs both the uplink and the downlink to accelerate the transmission of such images. The proposed system was introduced in the wavelet-based JPEG2000 standard, which is not well-suited for satellites due to its complexity. This letter approaches the dual-link scheme to a more suitable standard for spatial data based on predictive coding, more precisely, the Lossless Multispectral and Hyperspectral image compression standard CCSDS-123.0-B.2. The proposed method adapts the dual-linkimagecoding scheme to CCSDS-123.0-B-2 by incorporating a quantizer, a lightweight arithmetic coder, and a rate control technique. Experimental results suggest that the resulting system achieves higher coding ratios than CCSDS-123.0-B-2 and JPEG2000 with duallink.
The conventional strategy to download images captured by satellites is to compress the data on board and then transmit them via the downlink. It often happens that the capacity of the downlink is too small to accommod...
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The conventional strategy to download images captured by satellites is to compress the data on board and then transmit them via the downlink. It often happens that the capacity of the downlink is too small to accommodate all the acquired data, so the images are trimmed and/or transmitted through lossy regimes. This paper introduces a coding system that increases the amount and quality of the downloaded imaging data. The main insight of this paper is to use both the uplink and the downlink to code the images. The uplink is employed to send reference information to the satellite so that the onboard coding system can achieve higher efficiency. This reference information is computed on the ground, possibly employing extensive data and computational resources. The proposed system is called dual link image coding. As it is devised in this paper, it is suitable for Earth observation satellites with polar orbits. Experimental results obtained for data sets acquired by the Landsat 8 satellite indicate significant coding gains with respect to conventional methods.
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