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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B2-2026-93-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Controlled Multi-source Mapping of Lunar South Polar Regions via Combined Bundle Adjustment</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>You</surname>
<given-names>Qionghua</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ye</surname>
<given-names>Zhen</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xu</surname>
<given-names>Yusheng</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Rong</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xie</surname>
<given-names>Huan</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3272-7848</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tong</surname>
<given-names>Xiaohua</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>College of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>The Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space Mapping and Remote Sensing for Planetary Exploration, Shanghai, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B2-2026</volume>
<fpage>93</fpage>
<lpage>99</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Qionghua You et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Integration of LROC NAC and ShadowCam imagery is essential for meter-scale controlled mapping of the entire lunar south pole including Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs), but remains challenging due to extreme radiometric differences, sparse overlap across illumination boundaries, and ill-conditioned bundle adjustment networks. This paper proposes a LOLA DEM-mediated multi-source bundle adjustment framework for controlled lunar polar mapping. A hierarchical cross-modality matching strategy is developed using first- and second-order Gaussian steerable gradient features with multi-scale fusion and phase-correlation-based subpixel refinement. Sensor-specific geometric models are established using second-order polynomial transformations for NAC orthoimages and rational polynomial models for ShadowCam map-projected images. Five types of geometric constraints are formulated to integrate intra-sensor, limited cross-sensor, and image-to-DEM observations, with the LOLA DEM acting as a common geometric mediator. To stabilize the heterogeneous network, a hybrid L1-L2 regularization model with adaptive two-stage weighting is optimized using ADMM algorithm. Experiments in the lunar south polar region demonstrate substantial improvements on intra-sensor, cross-sensor, and image-to-reference positioning accuracy. The final seamless 1 m/pixel orthorectified mosaics achieve approximately 5 m absolute accuracy, validating the proposed framework for geometrically unifying illuminated and permanently shadowed terrain in lunar polar controlled mapping.</p>
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