The technique of quasi-lossless compression of the remote sensing image

In this paper, the technique of quasi-lossless compression based on the image restoration is presented. The technique of compression described in the paper includes three steps, namely bit compression, correlation removing and image restoration based on the theory of modulation transfer function (MTF). The quasi-lossless compression comes to a high speed. The quality of the reconstruction image under restoration is up to par of the quasi-lossless with higher compression ratio. The experiments of the TM and SPOT images show that the technique is reasonable and applicable.