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However, severe earthquakes will increase the deformation between the remote sensing images acquired before and after the earthquakes on different platforms. Traditional image registration methods can hardly meet the requirements of accuracy and efficiency of image registration of post-earthquake RS images used for disaster assessment. Therefore, an improved image registration method was proposed for the registration of multisource high-resolution remote sensing images. The proposed method used the combination of the Shi_Tomasi corner detection algorithm and scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) to detect tie points from image patches obtained by an image partition strategy considering geographic information constraints. Then, the random sample consensus (RANSAC) and greedy algorithms were employed to remove outliers and redundant matched tie points. Additionally, a pre-earthquake RS image database was constructed using pre-earthquake high-resolution RS images and used as the references for image registration. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated using three image pairs covering regions affected by severe earthquakes. 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