Fuzzy transform for high-resolution satellite images compression

Abstract

Many compression methods have been developed until now, especially for very high-resolution satellites images, which, due to the massive information contained in them, need compression for a more efficient storage and transmission. This paper modifies Perfilieva's Fuzzy transform using pseudo-exponential function to compress very high-resolution satellite images. We found that very high-resolution satellite images can be compressed by F-transform with pseudo-exponential function as the membership function. The compressed images have good quality as shown by the PSNR values ranging around 59-66 dB. However, the process is quite time-consuming with average 187.1954 seconds needed to compress one image. These compressed images qualities are better than the standard compression methods such as CCSDS and Wavelet method, but still inferior regarding time consumption.