Orientation of MOMS-02/D2 and MOMS-2P/PRIRODA imagery

This paper deals with the orientation of three-line imagery which has been taken during the MOMS-02/D2 experiment in spring 1993, and during the MOMS-2P/PRIRODA mission since April 1996. The reconstruction of the image orientation is based on a combined adjustment of the complete image, ground control, orbit and attitude information. The combined adjustment makes use of the orientation point approach or the orbital constraints approach. In the second case, the bundle adjustment algorithm is supplemented by a rigorous dynamical modeling of the spacecraft motion. The results of the combined adjustment using MOMS-02/D2 imagery and control information of orbit 75b are presented. Based on the orientation point approach an empirical height accuracy of up to 4 m (0.3 pixel) is obtained. In planimetry the empirical accuracy is limited to about 10 m (0.7 pixel), since the ground control points (GCP) and check points could not be identified in the imagery with the required accuracy. Computer simulations on MOMS-2P/PRIRODA image orientation based on realistic input information have shown that good accuracies of the estimated exterior orientation parameters and object point coordinates can be obtained either with a single strip and a few precise GCP or even without ground control information, if a block of several overlapping and crossing strips with high geometric strength (q ≃ 60%) is adjusted.