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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2009
Jean-pierre Antikidis, Castanet, FR;
Jean-jacques Favier, Montastruc la Conseillere, FR;
Jean-Pierre Antikidis, Castanet, FR;
Jean-Jacques Favier, Montastruc la Conseillere, FR;
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method of acquiring, compressing and transmitting satellite images, characterized in that in a systematic manner: an image is acquired (); () the image is processed by an image preprocessing step providing a value characteristic of the image and an image preprocessed by recognizing predetermined natural objects in the acquired image and replacing the natural objects by standard objects; the characteristic value is compared () with a table of values, each value of which is associated with a compression algorithm; the compression algorithm corresponding to the characteristic value is implemented () by compression elements for compressing the image; the compressed image is transmitted () to a remote image reception device by transmission elements.