Stochastic compression of raster data

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

• obtain, based at least in part on a user request for compression statistics and error statistics for a given set of raster data associated with a given geographic region, at least one compression ratio and at least one error value for the given set of raster data, wherein the given set of raster data comprises a set of satellite image data;
• compress at least a portion of the given set of raster data based at least in part on the at least one compression ratio and the at least one error value, wherein compressing comprises removing at least one of one or more spatial redundancies and one or more temporal redundancies from the at least a portion of the given set of raster data, and wherein the at least a portion of the given set of raster data comprises one or more randomly-selected samples from the given set of raster data;
• transmit the compressed raster data, to at least one given destination, based at least in part on a given transmission speed variable;
• and
• perform one or more automated actions based at least in part on the transmitted compressed raster data.

A system comprising:

• a memory configured to store program instructions;
• and
• a processor operatively coupled to the memory to execute the program instructions to:
• obtain, based at least in part on a user request for compression statistics and error statistics for a given set of raster data associated with a given geographic region, at least one compression ratio and at least one error value for the given set of raster data, wherein the given set of raster data comprises a set of satellite image data;
• compress at least a portion of the given set of raster data based at least in part on the at least one compression ratio and the at least one error value, wherein compressing comprises removing at least one of one or more spatial redundancies and one or more temporal redundancies from the at least a portion of the given set of raster data, and wherein the at least a portion of the given set of raster data comprises one or more randomly-selected samples from the given set of raster data;
• transmit the compressed raster data, to at least one given destination, based at least in part on a given transmission speed variable;
• and
• perform one or more automated actions based at least in part on the transmitted compressed raster data.