This paper presents techniques for automatic mapping of Mars landing sites using surface-based images, i.e., those taken by Mars landers and/or rovers. An innovative method for automatic tie point…
Study of the origin, composition and alteration of planetary regoliths and soils is a key to set constraints on the formation and evolution of telluric planets. Surfaces are indeed complex interfaces…
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…
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.…
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…
After GUI was spread, we have to deal with huge sized programs written for investigation of planetary data. There are many commercial based utilities to make those smaller such that GUI libraries or…
One of the primary tasks of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) mission is to produce precision mapping products over the Mars surface [Albee et al, 2001]. Properties and capabilities of MOC NA (Mars…
The Cassini spacecraft will begin its tour through the Saturnian system in July 2004. One major goal of the imaging instrument aboard Cassini is to complete the global coverage of the icy Saturnian…
The Mars Transverse Mercator (MTM) Map Series has been used to publish geologic and controlled photomosaic maps of Mars since 1984. Traditionally maps were published using planetographic coordinates…
Many indicators for ocean on Mars were proposed: outflow channels and features related to the evolution of standing bodies of water (polygons, lobate impact craters), features consistent with the…
High precision topographic information from all available data is critical to many landing site geological and engineering applications. Meanwhile, precise navigation and localization of the rover is…
In this abstract we report on our initial experiences performing stereotopographic mapping of Mars with high-resolution images from the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Narrow-Angle subsystem…
The Magellan spacecraft went into Venus orbit in 1990 and by 1992 had made three complete cycles of polar orbits, each cycle covering the full range of longitudes. During this time the spacecraft…
The current global spatial control net of Mars provides the geodetic basis for an orthoimage map composed of image data sets obtained from VIKING missions from 1976 to 1980. This map is not…
Digitization and cartographic processing of 5 Lunar Orbiter (LO) IV frames (109H, 110H, 114H, 115H, and 114M) are now complete, and these data are available online at…
The stereo photogrammetric observable equations are presented relating control point image location to camera distortions, camera pointing, spacecraft position, Mars-fixed areocentric control point…
NASA's Mars Geodesy/Cartography Working Group (MGCWG), established in 1998 and chaired since 2000 by one of us (TCD), consists of leading researchers in planetary geodesy and cartography at such…
Though the primary focus at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) is on building and operating instruments through the archiving of raw data, we have also pursued research interests in planetary…
As a result of imagery returned from the Galileo spacecraft, the Galilean satellites have been the focus of a great deal of scientific research and general public interest. New control networks and…
We present here our current results from photogrammetric triangulation solutions for a control network and reference surface for Jupiter’s moon Io. It is compared to previous such solutions by us…
