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Main Authors: Kondrateva, Olga, Dietzel, Stefan, Scheuermann, Björn
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06802
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author Kondrateva, Olga
Dietzel, Stefan
Scheuermann, Björn
author_facet Kondrateva, Olga
Dietzel, Stefan
Scheuermann, Björn
contents Small satellites are widely used today as cost effective means to perform Earth observation and other tasks that generate large amounts of high-dimensional data, such as multi-spectral imagery. These satellites typically operate in low earth orbit, which poses significant challenges for data transmission due to short contact times with ground stations, low bandwidth, and high packet loss probabilities. In this paper, we introduce JSCC-Sat, which applies joint source-and-channel coding using neural networks to provide efficient and robust transmission of compressed image data for satellite applications. We evaluate our mechanism against traditional transmission schemes with separate source and channel coding and demonstrate that it outperforms the existing approaches when applied to Earth observation data of the Sentinel-2 mission.
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spellingShingle Joint Source-and-Channel Coding for Small Satellite Applications
Kondrateva, Olga
Dietzel, Stefan
Scheuermann, Björn
Networking and Internet Architecture
Small satellites are widely used today as cost effective means to perform Earth observation and other tasks that generate large amounts of high-dimensional data, such as multi-spectral imagery. These satellites typically operate in low earth orbit, which poses significant challenges for data transmission due to short contact times with ground stations, low bandwidth, and high packet loss probabilities. In this paper, we introduce JSCC-Sat, which applies joint source-and-channel coding using neural networks to provide efficient and robust transmission of compressed image data for satellite applications. We evaluate our mechanism against traditional transmission schemes with separate source and channel coding and demonstrate that it outperforms the existing approaches when applied to Earth observation data of the Sentinel-2 mission.
title Joint Source-and-Channel Coding for Small Satellite Applications
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06802