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Securing precise ground control data is often laborious, and the accuracy of open-source control data is subject to variability. This paper explores the potential of the globally dispersed International GNSS Service (IGS) network to enhance the geometric performance of remote sensing images. The IGS network, with its extensive reach, offers superior positioning and navigation products that surpass the previously mentioned sources. To establish a connection between the IGS network and remote sensing images, high-resolution GEM chips (GEMs) are firstly utilized for precise positioning. Geolocation biases of these GEMs are refined based on the identified IGS information. After that, the calibrated GEM chips are applied as control information for the geometric calibration of raw satellite images. A test dataset from the Chinese Gaofen-2 (GF-2) with various forms of coverage is experimented, with LiDAR-derived Digital Surface Models (DSMs) serving as reference for the validation of the proposed method. Compared with traditional methods using the GEMs as a direct reference, the experimental results demonstrate that the introduced IGS information enhances the geometric performance of remote sensing images, exhibiting robust generalization performance across remote sensing data from various source domains.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16203860","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,17]],"date-time":"2024-10-17T08:56:32Z","timestamp":1729155392000},"page":"3860","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Investigation of Global International GNSS Service Control Information Extraction for Geometric Calibration of Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Niangang","family":"Jiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2063-9816","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuming","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6494-3639","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Feng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Guangyao","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Hongjian","family":"You","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"767","DOI":"10.1007\/s12210-023-01155-3","article-title":"An overview of land degradation, desertification and sustainable land management using GIS and remote sensing applications","volume":"34","author":"AbdelRahman","year":"2023","journal-title":"Rend. 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