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ISPRS 2004 Quantitative Assessment of Automated Crater Detection on Mars thumbnail

ISPRS 2004 Quantitative Assessment of Automated Crater Detection on Mars

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Crater Size-Frequency Distributions (SFD) on planetary surfaces are crucial to dating the geological age. On the Moon they have been employed together with radioactive K-Ar techniques to determine…

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ISPRS 2003 Topographic Profile Diagrams of Mars: Architecture of the Density of Craters Curver Low-Pass Filter thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Topographic Profile Diagrams of Mars: Architecture of the Density of Craters Curver Low-Pass Filter

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Recently, mathematical approach was proposed providing a way to compute how deep Martian ocean was during each period of the planet history, including the probability that ocean existed once.…

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ISPRS 2003 Topography Profile Diagrams of Mars: Algorithms for Computing Altitude of Craters thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Topography Profile Diagrams of Mars: Algorithms for Computing Altitude of Craters

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Recently, mathematical approach was proposed providing a way to compute how deep Martian ocean was during each period of the planet history, including the probability that ocean existed once. An…

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ISPRS 2003 Impact Crater Detection on Optical Images and DEMs thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Impact Crater Detection on Optical Images and DEMs

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Impact craters are crucial landmarks for geodetic control as well as being interesting geological research targets themselves. Several methods have been developed to automatically detect impact…

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ISPRS 2003 Utilizing GIS in Martian Impact Crater Studies thumbnail

ISPRS 2003 Utilizing GIS in Martian Impact Crater Studies

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The Mars Crater Morphology Consortium was formed in 1997 to facilitate exchange of martian impact crater data among researchers through standardizing nomenclature, integrating crater databases into…

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