Systems and methods for synthetic aperture radar image compression

Abstract

For compressing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, preprocessing operations are performed on an input SAR image. A discrete cosine transform is performed on the image, and multiple subbands are created, where each subband represents a particular range of frequencies. The subbands are organized into multiple groups, where the multiple groups comprise a first low frequency group, a second low frequency group, and a high frequency group. A latent space representation is generated corresponding to each of the multiple groups of subbands. A first bitstream is created based on the latent space representation, and an alternate representation of the latent space is used for creating a second bitstream, enabling multiple-pass techniques for SAR image data compression, including phase unwrapping for supporting interferometric SAR (InSAR) applications.