Statistical information analysis of raw synthetic aperture radar data for compression
Xavier Morin, Safwan El Assad, Dominique Barba · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1996
SAR data is a remote sensor which produces a high amount of data. Since the transmission of the corresponding raw signals requires extremely high data rates, on-board data compression is usually necessary. The approach presented in this paper use the statistic properties of the received signal in order to improve the compression performance.