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For this purpose, a new methodology for fully automated co-registration has been developed allowing efficient and robust spatial alignment of standard orthorectified data products originating from a multitude of optical satellite remote sensing data of varying spatial resolution. Correlation-based co-registration uses world-wide available terrain corrected Landsat Level 1T time series data as the spatial reference, ensuring global applicability. The developed approach has been applied to a multi-sensor time series of 592 remote sensing datasets covering an approximately 12,000 km2 area in Southern Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia) strongly affected by landslides. The database contains images acquired during the last 26 years by Landsat (E)TM, ASTER, SPOT and RapidEye sensors. Analysis of the spatial shifts obtained from  co-registration has revealed sensor-specific alignments ranging between 5 m and more than 400 m. Overall accuracy assessment of these alignments has resulted in a high relative image-to-image accuracy of 17 m (RMSE) and a high absolute accuracy of 23 m (RMSE) for the whole co-registered database, making it suitable for multi-temporal landslide detection at a regional scale in Southern Kyrgyzstan.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs6032572","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,3,21]],"date-time":"2014-03-21T12:06:20Z","timestamp":1395403580000},"page":"2572-2600","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":47,"title":["Robust Automated Image Co-Registration of Optical  Multi-Sensor Time Series Data: Database Generation  for Multi-Temporal Landslide Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Robert","family":"Behling","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Section 1.4-Remote Sensing, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sigrid","family":"Roessner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Section 1.4-Remote Sensing, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karl","family":"Segl","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Section 1.4-Remote Sensing, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Birgit","family":"Kleinschmit","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geoinformation in Environmental Planning Lab, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, TU Berlin, Stra\u00dfe des 17. 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