Robust remote sensing still image coding with low memory requirements

A scheme for the efficient transmission of remote sensing satellite (RSS) images is presented in this paper. A joint source/channel coding solution was used to deal with the conflicting issues of data compression, to reduce the amount of data to be sent, and data protection, to cope with errors introduced by the channel, issues further burdened by the stringent low complexity and low memory requirements brought by the need for on-board compression. Results are presented showing that the proposed scheme attains good PSNR performance while still maintaining low complexity.