High resolution satellite image compression using zero padding discrete wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform algorithms
Raw satellite images are considered high in resolution, especially multispectral images captured by remote sensing satellites. Hence, choosing the suitable compression technique for such images should be carefully considered, to achieve high values of compression ratio (CR) to decrease the data s...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/69971/1/ITMA%202016%2018%20IR.pdf |
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| Summary: | Raw satellite images are considered high in resolution, especially multispectral images
captured by remote sensing satellites. Hence, choosing the suitable compression
technique for such images should be carefully considered, to achieve high values of
compression ratio (CR) to decrease the data storage on-board satellites, and the
bandwidth required to transmit data from the satellite to earth, while simultaneously
maintaining the important scientific information of the image when reconstructed at
the ground station. The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Discrete Wavelet
Transform (DWT)-based compression techniques have been utilized in most of the
space missions launched throughout the last few decades due to their efficiency.
However, both techniques have some drawbacks that should be addressed, such as
blocking artefacts for DCT and computational complexity for DWT.
Several different hybrid compression methods based on DCT and DWT were used in
previous works to utilize the positive properties and decrease the effect of the negative
properties of these transforms. However, none of these hybrid methods were
implemented on high resolution satellite images, and each method had one or more
shortcomings. Hence, a proposed hybrid (DWT-DCT) method was presented and
implemented in the current work on several satellite images, simulating an image
compression system on-board a small satellite. This method can achieve higher values
of compression ratio, through adding the 2D-DCT to the 2D-DWT second level
coefficients instead of further complex levels of 2D-DWT compression. Besides, this
method can maintain an acceptable reconstructed image quality through replacing the
standard DWT thresholding and quantization processes with an alternative process
that employed the zero-padding technique in a way that controlled the change in
Compression Ratio (CR) and Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), and helped to
decrease the DWT processing time.
Image compression was performed on several satellite images using DCT, DWT, and
the proposed Hybrid method with the aim of comparing the results. Hence, it was
indicated that the proposed hybrid (DWT-DCT) technique achieved better
performance than the standalone DCT or DWT techniques. All the results were
obtained objectively (by calculating the CR and PSNR values for each case using the
MATLAB software package), and subjectively (Visually). A gain of 43.6%, 57.8%
and 96.5% of CR was achieved using the proposed method relative to the DWT, for
the satellite images Baghdad, Basra and Erbil respectively, with a negligible reduction
in the reconstructed image quality. Hence, it was concluded that using the proposed
method improved the satellite image compression, and it is feasible to be used onboard
satellites. |
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