An Attitude Jitter Correction Method for Multispectral Parallax Imagery Based on Compressive Sensing

Abstract

Attitude jitter is a common problem for high-resolution earth-observation satellites and can diminish the geo-positioning and mapping performance of observed images. It is especially necessary to address this problem when high-performance attitude measurements are unavailable. Therefore, an attitude jitter correction method for multispectral parallax imagery that utilizes the compressive-sensing technology is proposed in this letter. In the proposed method, the attitude jitter is estimated from the parallax disparities of different band images, and then the image displacement caused by attitude jitter can be corrected. Using the normalized cross correlation method and compressive-sensing technology, the proposed method can deal with the condition of texture-feature deficiency in the partial image. The multispectral images of the Terra and ZY-3 satellites are used as experimental data to evaluate the proposed method. The registration errors of different bands are greatly reduced in both the cross- and along-track directions, and the experiment results indicate that the proposed method is effective for correcting the attitude jitter of both satellites.