A novel scheme for the compression and classification of hyperspectral images

Since hyperspectral images are very large, it is desirable to compress them before transmission. After receiving the compressed image, decompression is applied before performing image classification and other operations. In this paper, a new processing scheme is proposed, where image transform and quantization are applied for image compression at the transmitter and classification is performed directly on the compressed data at the receiver. The advantage of this scheme is that fewer computations are needed. Computer simulations are performed on hyperspectral imagery.