Abstract:Based on collected QuickBird imagery in Shanghai region,the iterative leastsquares solution with regularization(ILSR) are derived to determine the rational polynomial coefficients(RPCs) by using 50 fair distributed ground control points(GCPs)firstly.Two methods are then used to refine determined RPCs under different circumstance as:① when both the original and the additional GCPs are available,the RPCs wll be recomputed using the batch iterative leastsquares solution with regularization (BILSR) method; and ② when only the new GCPs are available,incremental discrete Kalman filtering (IDKF) method is then described.Meanwhile,schemes are scheduled with check points to evaluate their geopositioning accuracy.It is obtained that auxiliary points are necessary to refine the RPC because of their higher position accuracy rather than the amount used.A conclusion is then achieved as a reference when the high resolution imagery is processed in metropolitan area.