Drawing on his 30 years of research and practice in the field, Qian provides an end-to-end treatment of optical satellite compression and implementation. A companion to his Optical Satellite Signal Processing and Enhancement, the book can introduce beginners to the basics and evolution of data compression, or can serve as a reference for experienced practitioners working on onboard and ground satellite data compression, data handling and manipulation, and the deployment of data-compression subsystems. Among the topics are needs for data compression and image quality metrics, international standards for spacecraft data compression, optimizing the performance of onboard data compression, data compression engines aboard a satellite, and a hyperspectal image browser for online satellite data analysis and distribution. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
