Abstract: The joint fingerprinting and decryption(JFD)framework can provide comprehen-sive security protection for distribution of remote sensing images,and is highly efficient.But,this framework will lead to degradation of image quality after embedding fingerprints,and therefore cannot meet the specific near-lossless requirement of remote sensing images.Asecure distribution method for remote sensing images based on content is proposed.The im-age is partitioned into different regions,and the region which affects image content greatly isexcluded from the fingerprint embedding area.At the same time neighborhood similarity isdefined to evaluate the change of pixel correlation,areas with good neighborhood similarityafter encryption are chosen or embedded fingerprints.Experimental results show that thefingerprinted image has good image quality,and it will not affect its applications.