Design and implementation of aerial remote sensing image processing software system

An image processing software system framework for aerial remote sensing is designed and implemented in this paper. Different from commercial remote sensing processing software for satellite platforms, a serial of functions, including radiometric correction, geometric correction, image mosaic and fusion, are proposed referring to the feature of the aerial images. These functions can be freely composed to form a process pipeline with a friendly interactive user interface. Moreover, an automatic optimization method for processing pipeline is put forward based on the image quality evaluation. Besides, this system can yield valuable feedbacks to improve the imaging system. Its performance is verified by processing real aerial images. It is shown that the involved functional algorithms are robust against the instability of airborne platform, the variety of terrain, and other interfering factors resulting in imaging distortions.