New imaging mode has been brought up for collecting multiple scenes in one pass, as is implemented on World View-II.
This greatly helps for acquiring high spatial resolution images that cover urban areas, and is to be adopted in the coming
Chinese satellites. This paper is to discuss the mosaic characteristic and propose a mosaic line generation method by
integrating correlation and the road information. The mosaic line is formed by linking the unique mosaic point on each
line restricted within the road. We position the starting point by connectivity analysis of the road lines, and then locate
the adjacent point along the road with connectivity analysis. A weighed vector, combining correlation and distance to
centre of the road, is used to pick the best point. The points are located on the road unless it is unavoidable, for example,
the road ends or the line touches edge of the image. This method provides instant mosaic line generation for urban areas
with road information available in most cases. By resorting to the road, the mosaic line is more applicable since many
problems for mosaic of high spatial resolution images are solved, for example, tilting of the buildings, the shadows,
motions of the vehicles etc. Experiments have been done with WV-II images and gained favorable results.
With the development of high spatial resolution, high spectral resolution, high radiant resolution and high temporal resolution remote sensing satellites being put into use widely, the adaptive intelligent observation becomes an important function of a new generation of satellite remote sensing system. In order to realize the adaptive intelligent observation function, the first step is to construct the land cover priori knowledge and prejudge the land cover types and its reflectance values of the imaging areas. During the satellite imaging, the setting parameters of optimal camera including the on-orbit CCD integral time, electrical gain and image compression ratio are estimated according to the relationship of apparent radiance with sun illumination condition and land surface reflectance. In the paper, Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) bimonthly mean land surface reflectance imagery and 2009 GlobCover map are used to build the global land cover and its reflectance knowledge database. The land cover types include the cropland, urban, grassland, forest, desert, soil, water and ice land cover classes and the mean reflectance values in blue, green, red and near infrared spectral band were calculated in various seasons. The global land cover and reflectance values database has been integrated into the Beijing-1 small satellite mission programming system as the priori landscape knowledge of imaging areas to estimate the proper electrical gain of multispectral camera. After the intelligent observation mode was used in Beijing-1 small satellite, the entropy and SNR of multispectral imagery acquired by the Beijing-1 satellite had been increased greatly.
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