Extending the CCSDS Recommendation for Image Data Compression for Remote Sensing Scenarios

This paper presents prominent extensions that have been proposed for the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems Recommendation for Image Data Compression (CCSDS-122-B-1). Thanks to the proposed extensions, the Recommendation gains several important featured advantages: It allows any number of spatial wavelet decomposition levels; it provides scalability by quality, position, resolution, and component; and it supports multi-/hyper-/ultraspectral data coding, allowing a spectral decorrelation if requested. As a consequence, compression performance is notably improved with respect to the Recommendation for a large variety of remote sensing images, both monoband and multi-/hyper-/ultraspectral images. Reported results for hyperspectral data suggest that our proposal is competitive with the JPEG2000 standard.