When the aerial camera is photographed, during the forward flight,there is a relative motion between the image formed by thephotographic object on the focal plane and the photosensitivemedium, which brings about image blur and seriously affects theimaging quality of the camera. This paper analyzes the cause ofheading image shift and its influence on image, and expounds thenecessity of image shift compensation. On the basis of theanalysis and study of various existing methods of image shiftcompensation, a heading image shift compensation mechanismwas designed, and the image shift compensation was carried outusing a moving target structure. The imaging effect was goodthrough flight tests. Can satisfy the multitype aerial imagingimage migration compensation requirements. © 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.