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The GF-1 WFV (GF-1) and GF-6 WFV (GF-6) images have rational polynomial coefficients (RPCs). In practical applications, RPC corrections of GF-1 and GF-6 images need to be completed using the rational function model (RFM). However, can the accuracy of the rational function model satisfy practical application requirements? To address this issue, a geometric accuracy method was proposed in this paper to evaluate the accuracy of the RFM of GF-1 and GF-6 images. First, RPC corrections were completed using the RFM and refined RFM, respectively. The RFM was constructed using the RPCs and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 90 m DEM. The RFM was refined via affine transformation based on control points (CPs), which resulted in a refined RFM. Then, an automatic matching method was proposed to complete the automatic matching of GF-1\/GF-6 images and reference images, which enabled us to obtain many uniformly distributed CPs. Finally, these CPs were used to evaluate the geometric accuracy of the RFM and refined RFM. The 14th-layer Google images of the corresponding area were used as reference images. In the experiments, the advantages and disadvantages of BRIEF, SIFT, and the proposed method were first compared. Then, the values of the root mean square error (RSME) of 10,561 Chinese, French, and Brazilian GF-1 and GF-6 images were calculated and statistically analyzed, and the local geometric distortions of the GF-1 and GF-6 images were evaluated; these were used to evaluate the accuracy of the RFM. Last, the accuracy of the refined RFM was evaluated using the eight GF-1 and GF-6 images. The experimental results indicate that the accuracy of the RFM for most GF-1 and GF-6 images cannot meet the actual use requirement of being better than 1.0 pixel, the accuracy of the refined RFM for GF-1 images cannot meet practical requirement of being better than 1.0 pixel, and the accuracy of the refined RFM for most GF-6 images meets the practical requirement of being better than 1.0 pixel. 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