In this paper it proposes a meaningful digital watermarking algorithm for remote sensing image based on DFT and watermarking segmentation. At First, it normalizes the host remote sensing image and determines an invariant centroid, then selects a square area around the invariant centroid for watermark embedding. Next, it generates a pseudo-random sequence as digital watermarking, and divides it into two parts. Finally it applies DFT to the selected region and embeds watermark into DFT phase and amplitude components of the selected square area of the host remote sensing image. Experiments have shown the algorithm’s characteristics of good robustness, simple calculation, easy realization, and extracting watermark without the original remote sensing image, and it has value of copyright protection for remote sensing images.
