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On-board Change Detection for Resource-efficient Earth Observation with LEO Satellites (2305.10119v2)

Published 17 May 2023 in eess.SP and eess.IV

Abstract: The amount of data generated by Earth observation satellites can be enormous, which poses a great challenge to the satellite-to-ground connections with limited rate. This paper considers problem of efficient downlink communication of multi-spectral satellite images for Earth observation using change detection. The proposed method for image processing consists of the joint design of cloud removal and change encoding, which can be seen as an instance of semantic communication, as it encodes important information, such as changed multi-spectral pixels (MPs), while aiming to minimize energy consumption. It comprises a three-stage end-to-end scoring mechanism that determines the importance of each MP before deciding its transmission. Specifically, the sensing image is (1) standardized, (2) passed through a high-performance cloud filtering via the Cloud-Net model, and (3) passed to the proposed scoring algorithm that uses Change-Net to identify MPs that have a high likelihood of being changed, compress them and forward the result to the ground station. The experimental results indicate that the proposed framework is effective in optimizing energy usage while preserving high-quality data transmission in satellite-based Earth observation applications.

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