Fast compression implementation for hyperspectral sensor
Hiroki Hihara, Jun Yoshida, Juro Ishida, Jun‐ichi Takada, Yuzo Senda, Makoto Suzuki, Taeko Seki, Satoshi Ichikawa, Nagamitsu Ohgi · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2010
Fast and small foot print lossless image compressors aiming at hyper-spectral sensor for the earth observation satellite have been developed. Since more than one hundred channels are required for hyper-spectral sensors on optical observation satellites, fast compression algorithm with small foot print implementation is essential for reducing encoder size and weight resulting in realizing light-weight and small-size sensor system. The image compression method should have low complexity in order to reduce size and weight of the sensor signal processing unit, power consumption and fabrication cost. Coding efficiency and compression speed enables enlargement of the capacity of signal compression channels, which resulted in reducing signal compression channels onboard by multiplexing sensor signal channels into reduced number of compression channels. The employed method is based on FELICS1, which is hierarchical predictive coding method with resolution scaling. To improve FELICS's performance of image decorrelation and entropy coding, we applied two-dimensional interpolation prediction and adaptive Golomb-Rice coding, which enables small footprint. It supports progressive decompression using resolution scaling, whilst still delivering superior performance as measured by speed and complexity. The small footprint circuitry is embedded into the hyper-spectral sensor data formatter. In consequence, lossless compression function has been added without additional size and weight.