Automatic Determination of Tie Points for Hrsc on Mars Express

Within the scope of the "HRSC on Mars Express" mission the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation creates software for the automatic extraction of homologous image primitives from HRSC image data. With the obtained tie points a bundle block adjustment will be carried out with software developed at the Technical University of Munich which will result in an improved exterior orientation of the camera. With these results high level products like digital terrain models, ortho photos and shaded reliefs can be derived from the imagery. So far the software, which is also capable of handling frame images, has been tested with MOMS-02/D2, MOMS-2P and HRSC-A data. This paper discusses the results and the achieved accuracy of the matching and the bundle adjustment with a selected MOMS2P orbit and an HRSC-A dataset.