The principle and method of simulating the satellite-borne three-line CCD stereo images of the moon surface are presented using lunar DEM and relevant orthoimages.

The key problem to generate automatically the digital elevation model(DEM) by three-line CCD camera for photographic measurement is the stereo image matching technology.

The short strip aerial triangulation of three-line array CCD imagery;

And so far, none of aerial triangulation with three-line array CCD image and ground control points can pass through the similarity (no count of image observational error) between real model and the model estimated by single strip adjustment computed with the help of four control points at the corners of the strip is indicated.