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FPGA Design of Listless SPIHT for Onboard Image Compression

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Space missions are designed to leave Earth’s atmosphere and operate in outer space. Satellite imaging payloads operate mostly with a store-and-forward mechanism, in which captured images are stored on board and transmitted to ground later on. With the increase of spatial resolution, space missions are faced with the necessity of handling an extensive amount of imaging data. The increased volume of image data exerts great pressure on limited bandwidth and onboard storage. Image compression techniques provide a solution to the “bandwidth vs. data volume” dilemma of modern spacecraft. Therefore, compression is becoming a very important feature in the payload image processing units of many satellites [1].

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    Yunsong Li, Juan Song, Chengke Wu, Kai Liu, Jie Lei & Keyan Wang

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Li, Y., Song, J., Wu, C., Liu, K., Lei, J., Wang, K. (2012). FPGA Design of Listless SPIHT for Onboard Image Compression. In: Huang, B. (eds) Satellite Data Compression. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1183-3_4

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