A strip adjustment approach for precise georeferencing of ALOS optical imagery

Abstract

Precise georeferencing is one of the prerequisites for orthoimage generation from high-resolution satellite imagery. This requires the availability of a small number of GCPs that have to be visible in each scene. In this paper, it is shown how the number of GCPs required for the precise georeferencing of Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) imagery can be reduced by up to 90% using a generic pushbroom sensor model and strip adjustment while still achieving an accuracy of better than 1 pixel. A fully automatic work flow requiring an existing digital orthophoto and a digital elevation model (DEM) is also presented. Using an orthophoto mosaic generated from Landsat-7 panchromatic imagery ..