Introduction
The Chang'E-1 (CE-1) satellite was created for the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. It was launched on October 24, 2007, from China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center and guided to crash-land on the Moon on March 1, 2009. The principal science payload of the satellite is the charge-coupled device (CCD) stereo camera, which is designed primarily to acquire three-dimensional stereoscopic images of the lunar surface. The CCD stereo camera is a typical stereo imaging system for space applications based upon the three-line array photogrammetric theory. The theory was first presented by German scientists and has been applied to several space missions such as MOMS-02 [1], HRSC, WAOSS [2], and ALOS [3].