The authors of “Optical Image Generation and High-precision Line-of-Sight Extraction for Mars Approach Navigation” first published online on 3 July 2018 (Jiang et al., Reference Jiang, Li, Gu, Sun and Xiao2018) would like to make the following corrections to the paper. In particular, the authors apologise to Dr John A Christian for not citing his work (Christian, Reference Christian2017) in the appropriate places in the paper.

1. On page 1, the sentence in the Abstract, “Next, a hybrid image processing and subpixel-level line-of-sight extraction algorithm is proposed through modification of moment-based sub-pixel edge detection and improvement of direct least-square fitting approaches.” should be revised as “Next, a hybrid image processing and line-of-sight extraction algorithm is proposed through objective segmentation and rough edge detection, pseudo-edge elimination and precise edge detection, and robust ellipse fitting.”

2. In the last paragraph on page 10, the citation “(Du et al., Reference Du, Wang, Chen, Fang and Su2016; Christian, Reference Christian2017)” should be revised as “(Ghosal and Mehrotra, Reference Ghosal and Mehrotra1993; Du et al., Reference Du, Wang, Chen, Fang and Su2016)”; a citation “(Christian, Reference Christian2017)” should be added to the end of the sentence “Therefore, a ramp model is introduced to modify the traditional Zernike moment-based sub-pixel edge detection algorithm” and the end of this paragraph. The reference “Ghosal, S. and Mehrotra, R. (Reference Ghosal and Mehrotra1993). Orthogonal Moment Operators for Subpixel Edge Detection. Pattern Recognition, 26(2), 295–306.” should be added to the reference list.

3. On page 11, a citation “(Christian, Reference Christian2017)” should be added to the end of the caption “Figure 7. Sketch of two-dimensional sub-pixel edge models”; a sentence “As the subsequent operations in this step, a modified Zernike moments technique based on the intensity ramp edge model (Christian, Reference Christian2017) is employed to conduct sub-pixel edge detection, which is reviewed as follows.” should be added to the beginning of the first paragraph.

4. On page 22, the last sentence of the second paragraph in Section 4.4, “The proposal benefits from the modification of moment-based sub-pixel edge detection and improvement of direct least-square fitting approaches.” should be revised as “The proposal benefits from the effective collaboration of rough edge detection, precise edge detection, and robust ellipse fitting.”

5. On page 23, the sentence in the Section 5 Conclusions, “A new line-of-sight extraction technique is proposed through the modification of moment-based sub-pixel edge detection and improvement of direct least-square fitting approaches.” should be revised as “A hybrid line-of-sight extraction technique is developed through successively conducting objective segmentation and rough edge detection, pseudo-edge elimination and precise edge detection, and robust ellipse fitting.”