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Towards Seamless Lunar Mosaics: Deep Radiometric Normalization for Cross-Sensor Orbital Imagery Using Chandrayaan-2 TMC Data

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2604.25208v1 Announce Type: new Radiometric inconsistencies remain a major challenge in generating seamless lunar mosaics from multi-mission orbital imagery due to variability in illumination geometry, sensor characteristics, and acquisition conditions. This paper presents a deep learning-based radiometric normalization framework for multi-mission lunar mosaics constructed primarily from ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) data, supplemented with auxiliary imagery from the SELENE (Kaguya) mission.