Application of Rodrigues Matrix in High Accuracy Geo-location for
ZY-3 Panchromatic Imagery
Xiaoming Gao
1
, Fan Mo
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, Junfeng Xie
1
and Qijun Li
2
1
Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing, China
2
Geospatial Information Institute, Information Engineer University, Zhengzhou, China
Keywords: Rigorous Geometric Model, Rodrigues Matrix, Constant Angular Error, Additional Parameters Model,
Bundle Adjustment.
Abstract: In this paper, Rodrigues matrix is proposed to establish constant angular error calibration model, and interior
orientation errors are compensated by additional parameters model. Bundle block adjustment model is
established by these two models on the basis of the rigorous geometric model for ZY-3 panchromatic imagery.
Once the constant angular errors and interior orientation errors are eliminated using a few GCPs, the geo-
location accuracy will be significantly improved.
1 INTRODUCTION
The Ziyuan-3 (ZY-3) surveying and mapping satellite
is the first civilian high-resolution satellite in China.
Its ground resolution of nadir-view camera is better
than 2.1 m, forward- and backward-view cameras are
better than 3.5 m, and multi-spectral camera is better
than 5.8 m. The main task of the ZY-3 satellite is
performing stereo mapping at a scale of 1: 50,000,
producing digital images, and updating topographic
maps at scales of 1 : 25,000 and larger, as well as
playing an important role in the fields of land
resources surveying and monitoring, agriculture,
disaster control, resources and environment, public
safety, etc. (Sun and Tang, 2009).
Multiple studies have been conducted on the ZY-3
mapping satellite. For example, Deren Li constructed
a geometric model for the imaging of the ZY-3
satellite and proposed an imaging technology based
on a virtual CCD linear array, that was used to
calibration (Li, 2012). Chubin Liu established a strict
geometric model for the stereoscopic location of the
panchromatic camera of the ZY-3 mapping satellite
(Liu, 2012). Dazhao Fan adopted a linearized euler
angle model to calibrate the constant error of the
attitude (Fan et al., 2013). Chubin Liu utilized a self-
calibrating method for the regional area adjustment of
the three-line array images (Liu et al., 2014).
Yonghua Jiang derived an internal orientation
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calibration model for the CCD, and achieved a high
accuracy (Jiang et al., 2013). Finally, by analyzing the
direction angle of each CCD joint in the star sensor
coordinate system, Cao Jinshan proposed a direction
angle calibration method (Cao et al., 2014).
In this study, based on the strict imaging
geometric model of the ZY-3 satellite, we propose a
calibration model for the constant error of the attitude
angle using the Rodrigues rotation matrix. In
addition, by introducing an additional parameter
model considering the aberration to compensate for
the internal orientation distortion, we constructed a
block adjustment model using the self-calibrating
bundle method, that could derive the correction
numbers of both the internal and external orientation
elements based on a small number of ground control
points, then significantly improving the imaging geo-
location accuracy of the system.
2 STRICT GEOMETRIC MODEL
The strict geometric model utilized in this study for
the imaging of the ZY-3 mapping satellite can be
expressed by formula (1):
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