Hundreds of satellites are orbiting the Earth in order to support weather forecast, emergency responses to bushfires and earthquakes and so on. The resolution of images taken by these satellite is becoming higher and higher so that the file size of a single image can be as large as 1GB. It takes hours to deliver such an image over the internet and this has become a bottleneck in emergency responses involving satellite images. This project will study the image compression algorithms and develop highly efficient software tools.
This project will be co-supervised by staff from UNSW and the NSW Department of Lands. The selected student(s) has the opportunity to be employed by the Lands Department upon graduation.
