[Rugged](www.orekit.org/rugged/"Rugged homepage") is a free java library for geolocation and used for satellite imagery.
Rugged is an add-on for [Orekit](https://www.orekit.org/"Orekit homepage") handling Digital Elevation Models contribution to line of sight computation. It is a free software intermediate-level library written in Java.
It mainly provides direct and inverse location, i.e. it allows to compute accurately
which ground point is looked at from a specific pixel in a spacecraft instrument,
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Direct and inverse location can be used to perform full ortho-rectification of
images and correlation between sensors observing the same area.