• DocumentCode
    1026268
  • Title

    Infornation Content Analysis of Landsat Image Data for Compression

  • Author

    Chen, Thomas M. ; Staelin, David H. ; Arps, Ronald B.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    7/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    499
  • Lastpage
    501
  • Abstract
    This paper investigates information-preserving compressionof Landsat image data based on an entropy study. Measurementsof the statistical information in actual Landsat-4 images indicate a 3 : 1compression ratio can be achieved with a simple real-time compressionscheme.
  • Keywords
    Data compression; Entropy; Image analysis; Image coding; Information theory; Pixel; Pulse modulation; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0196-2892
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TGRS.1987.289862
  • Filename
    4072670