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A novel lossless compression encoding framework for SAR remote sensing images

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The resolution of SAR (synthetic-aperture radar) remote sensing images becomes higher to provide more details, but these images contain more data, which creates a limitation in terms of transport and storage. Most of existing image data compression frameworks are lossy or designed for spectral images. In this paper, we propose a novel lossless compression encoding framework for SAR remote sensing images. In the proposed framework, an outline of the image and the high-frequency components are separated and processed separately to increase the relativity of adjacent pixels. So the accuracy of prediction is improved, which makes the data compression more effective. The outline image is down-sampled to reduce data size, and the nonlocally centralized sparse representation-based super-resolution method is used to predict pixel values using the information in nonlocal similar regions. The proposed framework is evaluated with the ground range detected and PauliRGB images captured by SAR satellites. The results show that the proposed technique can get an efficient compression performance and it outperforms existing lossless compression frameworks in terms of compression efficiency.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61802105, 61701154, 61702154, 61632007, 61976076), and Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (No. 1908085QF265 and 1808085QF185).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data, Ministry of Education, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, Anhui, China

    Chunxiao Fan & Zhou Hu

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, Anhui, China

    Chunxiao Fan, Zhou Hu, Lu Jia & Hai Min

  3. Intelligent Interconnected Systems Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, Anhui, China

    Chunxiao Fan

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Fan, C., Hu, Z., Jia, L. et al. A novel lossless compression encoding framework for SAR remote sensing images. SIViP 15, 441–448 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-020-01763-8

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