PARALLEL AND ADAPTIVE UNIFORM-DISTRIBUTED REGISTRATION METHOD 
FOR CHANG’E-1 LUNAR REMOTE SENSED IMAGERY 
X. Ning” *, M. Hao*, 
“Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Chinese Academy Surveying and Mapping, 28 Lianhuachi West 
Road, Beijing, China - (ningxg, haomh)@casm.ac.cn 
Commission VI, WG VI/4 
KEY WORDS: Chang’E-1, registration, SIFT, parallel calculation, uniform distribution 
ABSTRACT: 
On the October 24" 2007, China launched its first Lunar Probe Satellite "Chang'E I". After the 494 days travelling, the probe vehicle 
landed accurately at its predetermined landing site on the moon at 52.36 degrees east longitude and 1.5 degrees south latitude. It sent 
back the first imagery of the lunar surface on 26 November 2007 and accomplished all the scheduled scientific tasks successfully. As 
the first lunar Probe Satellite, the major goal of Chang'E I mission is to obtain three-dimensional images of the landforms and 
geological structures of the lunar surface, so as to provide a reference for planned future soft landings. However, due to the dramatic 
change of the radiation information of the CE-limagery, the traditional methods that are based on the gray and line characters show 
the limitation achieving a satisfied result. Moreover, the registration processing between lunar images that cover the whole moon has 
proved to be very time-consuming. 
To resolve the above-mentioned registration difficulties, a parallel and adaptive uniform-distributed registration method for CE-1 
lunar remote sensed imagery is proposed in this paper. Based on 6 pairs of randomly selected images, both the standard SIFT 
algorithm and the parallel and adaptive uniform-distributed registration method were executed, the versatility and effectiveness were 
assessed. The experimental results indicate that: by applying the parallel and adaptive uniform-distributed registration method, the 
efficiency of CE-1 lunar remote sensed imagery registration were increased dramatically. Therefore, the proposed method in the 
paper could acquire uniform-distributed registration results more effectively, the registration difficulties including difficult to obtain 
results, time-consuming, non-uniform distribution could be successfully solved. 
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