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The Chinese satellites HJ-1 A/B, CBERS-02C and ZY-3 have been recently launched and are considered as the main space platformson orbit to acquire optical images for monitoring the Earth for various applications in China. The commercially distributed products(Level 1 or 2) of those satellites usually lack sufficient information (about platform, sensor and ephemeris) that is the key togeometrically correct the acquired images. It is therefore always a challenging issue and the first step to assess the geometricaccuracy, which is a key part of qualities in spatial data, of the images from those satellites before generation of geometricallyaccurate image products. This paper first describes an operational methodology to assess the geometric accuracy of those satelliteimages. The methodology automatically collects dense and spatially well distributed ground control points (GCP) against referenceimagery and then fits those GCPs to the given geometric math model. The geometric accuracy of an image can then be assessed fromthe overall fitness of those GCPs and their distribution of geometric errors along and across track. The residual mean square (RMS)parameter is used to indicate the degree of overall fitness of the GCPs to the photogrammetric system. The distribution of geometricerrors may be random or approximated by a second or higher order polynomial functions; the latter case is generally considered as asystematic error that was not removed completely in the Level 1 or 2 data product. In order to draw solid conclusions, a significantnumber of samples are selected for each of those satellites by taking variations of landscapes into consideration. The assessmentexperiments demonstrate that the accuracy of HJ-1 A/B is often very poor, that of CBERS-02C is better than the situation of HJ-1A/B but records poor accuracy for most samples, and that of ZY-3 is the best among all satellites under investigation and has fewsamples with poor accuracy. According to the assessment results, this paper suggests an operational correction methodology toimprove the accuracy for those satellites, particularly for the HJ-1 A/B and CBERS-02C. Operational production proves that theproposed correction methodology is capable of achieving much higher accuracy than traditional ones and the achieved accuracymeets high standard product requirements for such applications as mapping

the international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences

Geometric Accuracy Assessment and Correction of Imagery from Chinese Earth Observation Satellites (HJ-1 A/B, CBERS-02C and ZY-3)