Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2019, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (6): 671-675.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2019.20190058

• Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing •     Next Articles

Improvement strategy for location accuracy without ground control points of 3rd satellite of TH-1

WANG Renxiang1,2, WANG Jianrong1,2, LI Jing3, ZHU Leiming3, LI Wu3, YANG Junfeng3   

  1. 1. National Key Laboratory of Geo-Information Engineering, Xi'an 710054, China;
    2. Xi'an Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Xi'an 710054, China;
    3. Center of TH-Satellite of China, Beijing 102102, China
  • Received:2019-02-02 Revised:2019-04-03 Online:2019-06-20 Published:2019-07-09

Abstract: The transmission photogrammetric satellite with global coverage on a continuous basis belongs to dynamic photography, and the location without ground control points (GCPs) can-not reach to the level of the frame imagery. In this paper, the location without GCPs is researched in-depth about 3th satellite, based on the existing research results of TH-1. In order to counteract the negative effect of small width-to-height ratio (ratio of satellite strip photographic coverage width to satellite orbital height), the additional corrections of interior orientation elements were performed during the on-orbit calibration. As a result, the systematic errors were reduced while the horizontal location accuracy was improved, and the location accuracy without GCPs have achieved to 3.7 m (horizontal accuracy) and 2.4 m (vertical elevation accuracy) using foreign testing field. The location without GCPs of a single strip satellite imagery with global coverage on a continuous basis can be improved to the theoretical level by using its GNSS receiver, star tracker and domestic calibration results of camera parameters.

Key words: photogrammetric satellite, aerial triangulation, location without GCPs, exterior orientation elements, on-orbit calibration

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