In order to establish a complete set of simulation system for high-resolution mid-infrared remote sensing and provide a powerful reference for spacecraft design and related works,the importance of atmospheric radiative transfer simulation in this system was considered,and a reasonable and high precision imaging numerical simulation method was expected.Taking into account the characteristics of MIR,including scattering and thermal emission,terms of atmospheric radiative transfer were decomposed based on radiative transfer principle,and images of top of atmosphere (TOA) were simulated according to MODTRAN4 and look-up table method.Besides,adjacency effect caused by atmospheric scattering of neighboring pixels radiation was considered,and an extended point spread function in mid-infrared was coupled with analytical model of atmospheric radiative transfer to simulate TOA images.Finally,a preliminary test and simulation results show that the simulation model has better accuracy.If parameters of observation geometry and atmosphere were given and the land surface temperature/emissivity was determined,the calculation of pixel-level atmospheric radiative transfer was to be achieved.