The invention relates to the technical field of optical sensor calibration and
deep learning, and discloses a medium and low
orbit optical load
thermal deformation sight line error
correction method, which comprises the following steps: S1, constructing an in-
orbit camera imaging model based on a fixed star, and obtaining a camera
sight line vector according to the imaging model; s2, analyzing reasons of errors caused by sun illumination to camera
sight vectors and constructing characteristic parameters; s3, constructing a camera
thermal deformation error model, and calculating a
thermal deformation error matrix RSTD under different characteristic parameters; s4, the BP neural network is improved, a Newton-Raphson optimizer is used for adjusting the
network structure of the BP neural network, and a rime optimization
algorithm is used for initializing network parameters of the BP neural network; and S5, taking the characteristic parameters and the thermal deformation error matrix RSTD as input data, training by using the improved BP neural network, and predicting a thermal deformation error. According to the invention, camera
sight line offset errors can be reduced, and the problem of frequent on-
orbit camera
sight line correction is solved.