Physics
Scientific paper
May 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005soph..228..253n&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics, Volume 228, Issue 1-2, pp. 253-264
Physics
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Scientific paper
The amount of useful scientific data that a space-borne telescope produces is often limited by the available telemetry of the platform. General purpose image compression schemes are usually used to compress the image either lossy or losslessly. These schemes do not take into account the fact that pixel values of typical solar images are only known to within a certain uncertainty range. We present a preprocessing method to enhance the performance (compression ratio) of any subsequent image compression scheme. The method uses estimates of the photon shot and thermal noises to compute a recoding look-up table that maps the initial data into uncertainty intervals. The recoding method is lossy in a mathematical sense but lossless in a physical sense, since the image alterations are guaranteed to be smaller than the Poisson noise. The performance of any further compression algorithm is enhanced while achieving a known guaranteed maximum absolute error for each pixel in the case of lossless compression.
Berghmans David
Hochedez Jean-François
Nicula Bogdan
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