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On the Lossless Compression of HyperHeight LiDAR Forested Landscape Data

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Veröffentlicht in:Remote Sensing vol. 17, no. 21 (2025), p. 3588-3608
1. Verfasser: Makarichev Viktor
Weitere Verfasser: Ramirez-Jaime, Andres, Porras-Diaz, Nestor, Vasilyeva Irina, Lukin, Vladimir, Arce Gonzalo, Okarma Krzysztof
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MDPI AG
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National Aeronautics & Space Administration > NASA
Sparsity
Climate change
Terrain models
Data transfer (computers)
Environmental monitoring
Research facilities
Height
Datasets
Mathematical analysis
Environmental research
Splitting
Binary codes
Lidar
Disaster management
Neon
Emergency preparedness
Compression ratio
Entropy
Data compression
Photons
Remote sensing
Data structures
Ice sheets
Tensors
Arithmetic coding
Algorithms
Compression
Real time
Data transmission
Octrees
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Abstract:<sec sec-type="highlights"> What are the main findings? <list list-type="bullet"> <list-item> </list-item>The combination of Golomb–Rice coding with run-length encoding and context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding within the developed block-splitting framework provides a median compression ratio above 24 for HyperHeight LiDAR data. <list-item> The proposed methods provide lossless reconstruction and outperform standard NPZ and bit packing when compressing HyperHeight LiDAR data. </list-item> What are the implications of the main findings? <list list-type="bullet"> <list-item> </list-item>The proposed approach enables efficient, lossless onboard compression of large LiDAR datasets for satellite missions such as NASA CASALS. <list-item> Scalability and data transfer efficiency are improved, supporting real-time environmental monitoring and analysis. </list-item> Satellite Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems produce high-resolution data essential for confronting critical environmental challenges like climate change, disaster management, and ecological conservation. A HyperHeight Data Cube (HHDC) is a novel representation of LiDAR data. HHDCs are structured three-dimensional tensors, where each cell captures the number of photons detected at specific spatial and height coordinates. These data structures preserve the detailed vertical and horizontal information essential for ecological and topographical analyses, particularly Digital Terrain Models and canopy height profiles. In this paper, we investigate lossless compression techniques for large volumes of HHDCs to alleviate constraints on onboard storage, processing resources, and downlink bandwidth. We analyze several methods, including bit packing, Rice coding (RC), run-length encoding (RLE), and context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC), as well as their combinations. We introduce the block-splitting framework, which is a simplified version of octrees. The combination of RC with RLE and CABAC within this framework achieves a median compression ratio greater than 24, which is confirmed by the results of processing two large sets of HHDCs simulated using the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center NEON data.
ISSN:2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs17213588
Quelle:Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database