Compression of hyper-spectral images based on quadtree partitioning

The paper analyzes the characteristic features of hyper-spectral image and presents a compression of hyper-spectral images based on quadtree partitioning. Quadtree partition is used to get the mean image of the whole image and the significant correlation of image can be decorrelated by subtract the mean image from original image. The difference image is compressed by DCT and encoded with arithmetic code. Experiment show the algorithm is simple and easy to use in real-time image compressing.