Patent ID: 7783131

Claim:
A method of generating positioning coefficients for a strip-based satellite image, comprising steps of: (a) obtaining a preliminary orbit by using first on-board data; (b) correcting said preliminary orbit by using at least one ground control point (GCP) obtained by manual measurement, wherein each said GCP comprises a set of two-dimensional (2D) image coordinates of an image space and a set of 3D ground coordinates of an object space, and modifying said first on-board data to obtain second on-board data; (c) processing a back projection based on the second on-board data to obtain a plurality of virtual control point (VCP) for each data point of the second on-board data, wherein each VCP comprises a set of two-dimensional (2D) image coordinates of the image space and a set of 3D ground coordinates of the object space; and (d) processing said VCPs with a least squares adjustment to obtain a plurality of positioning coefficients, wherein said positioning coefficients are rational polynomial coefficients (RPC) which cover all of said strip-based satellite image.