Efficient payload communications for IoT-enabled ViSAR vehicles using discrete cosine transform-based quasi-sparse bit injection

Abstract

AbstractHigh-performance remote sensing payload communication is a vital problem in air-borne and space-borne surveillance systems. Among different remote sensing imaging systems, video synthetic aperture radar (ViSAR) is a new technology with lots of principal and managerial data which should be compressed, aggregated, and communicated from a radar platform (or a network of radars) to a ground station through wireless links. In this paper, a new data aggregation technique is proposed towards efficient payload transmission in a network of aerial ViSAR vehicles. Our proposed method is a combination of a recent interpolation-based data hiding (IBDH) technique and visual data transformation process using discrete cosine transform (DCT) which is able to outperform the reference method in terms of data aggregation ability.