Compression of AIRS data using Emperical Mode Decomposition

Abstract

In this paper, we consider an application of the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) introduced by Norden E. Huang in 1996 to the compression of 3D hyperspectral sounding data. The EMD is a new data analysis method which is based on expansion of the data in terms of Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF). These IMFs are based on and derived from the data set. Since EMD adaptively represent the signal as a sum of "well behaved" amplitude/frequency modulated components, we found it very well suited for the whitening part of the compression scheme.