PLEIADES-HR INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR GEOMETRIC IMAGE QUALITY COMMISSIONING
Since the beginning of 2012, the first Pleiades-HR satellite of the program conducted by the French National Space Agency, CNES, delivers 20 km wide color scenes with a 70 cm ground sampling distance. A second satellite should be launched in 2013 which will achieve an almost world-wide coverage wi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2012-07-01
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Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
Online Access: | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XXXIX-B1/543/2012/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B1-543-2012.pdf |
Summary: | Since the beginning of 2012, the first Pleiades-HR satellite of the program conducted by the French National Space Agency, CNES,
delivers 20 km wide color scenes with a 70 cm ground sampling distance. A second satellite should be launched in 2013 which will
achieve an almost world-wide coverage with a revisit interval of 24h.<br><br>
The assessment of the image quality and the calibration operation have been performed by CNES Image Quality team during the 6
month commissioning phase that followed the satellite launch. The geometric commissioning activities consist in improve the
geometric quality of the images in order to meet very demanding specifications as localization accuracy, local coherence, dynamic
stability, length alteration … This goal has been achieved through the implementation of new methods of calibration and
performance assessment. Some of these methods are based on the exploitation of very specific satellite acquisitions that have been
achieved thanks to the amazing agility of the Pleiades satellite. Thus, many stars acquisitions and very slow earth pictures have been
processed to characterize dynamic phenomena. Similarly, “along-cross track” pairs have been exploited to improve the accuracy of
the focal plane description. This paper deals with these new methods. It describes their accuracy and their operational interests. |
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ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |