“…The viewing angle (along track) of the off-nadir scanners is 21 degrees off nadir. An extensive amount of literature is available to assess the radiometric (Huang, et al, 2013) and the geometric quality (Tang, et al, 2013;Tang, et al, 2015) (Xu, et al, 2012) (Liu, et al, 2012) (Jiang, et al, 2013) (Pan, et al, 2013) (Zhang, et al, 2014) (Jiang, et al, 2014) (Deng, et al, 2014b) of the imagery from ZY-3.…”