Method of Curve Vector Data Compression Based on IWT and FCM ZHANG Jun-lan1, WANG Yi2 (1. College of Information Science and Technology, BEijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; 2. Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China) Abstract: The vector data compression has great significance in GIS data storage, network transmission and its application in mobile devices. A compression method based on the integer wavelet transform (IWT) and fuzzy C means (FCM) is proposed according to the analysis for the characteristic of curve vector data. The compressionscheme includes 3 steps: integer form of vector data, offset sequence processing with IWT and coding compression of transformed wavelet coefficients. The lossy coding of curve vector data was realized with the dictionary coding of FCM. Compared with other algorithms, this method has the characteristics of high compression ratio and less dist : spatial vector data; integer wavelet transform (IWT); FCM;