Abstract: Light Illumination is one of the most important parts of imaging simulation research. A new light illumination simulation approach for remote sensing image based on geometry mapping was proposed. The first step was the geometric calibration of the input image, and the visible light reflection property was extracted by the inverse rendering approach; Second, geometric information of each pixel in the input image was obtained by geometric mapping; and the simulation output of new light illumination condition could be got with the imaging calculation in the image space. Results show that the new approach can achieve simulation image of high reliability.

Key words: remote sensing image, visible light imaging, imaging simulation, relighting