Bias Compensation of IKONOS Geo Imagery

IKONOS Geo Imagery의 편의 보정

Recent researches have shown that IKONOS Geo imagery is capable of pixel-level geopositioning accuracy. However, a large number of ground control points(GCPs) are required in this case. For reducing the number of GCPs, users try to use the vender-supplied RPCs with Geo imagery. But, the biases included in RPCs give rise to absolute positioning error of about 25m as well known. In this paper, a method for the compensation of biases in rational polynomial coefficients(RPCs) for IKONOS Geo imagery is developed. the method requires provision of one or two GCPs to generate the compensated RPCs, and the analysis result of practical testing represents two or three pixels accuracy from IKONOS Geo imagery in case of using only compensated RPCs without GCPs.