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| PE&RS October 2005VOLUME 71, NUMBER 10PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
This cover shows nested views of the Meridiani Planum landing site of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at resolutions from tens of meters to tens of micrometers, in approximately natural color. The large image, giving regional context at 12.5 m resolution, comes from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter. The inset shows Opportunity’s landing point (Eagle crater, upper left) and its traverse path, superimposed on a 1.5 m/pixel image from the Mars Orbiter Camera onboard NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. Tilting the image slightly reveals a closeup view of an outcrop in Eagle crater at the 30 micrometer resolution of Opportunity’s Microscopic Imager, with lower resolution color supplied by its Pancam stereo camera. The presentation of these multiple stereo datasets is made possible by lenticular foil technology. The basis of this technology, its potential for the visualization of geospatial and cartographic information, and details of how the cover image was prepared are discussed in the Highlight article on p. 1105. Aspects of the stereogrammetric processing of the images are discussed in the peer-reviewed articles. Special thanks to the German Aerospace Center DLR for their support, and to BAE Systems, whose SOCET SET photogrammetric software was used in part to prepare the cover images.
Highlight Article Columns & Updates Peer-Reviewed Articles (Click the linked titles to see the full abstract) 1129 Initial Results of Rover Localization and
Topographic Mapping for the 2003 Mars
Exploration Rover Mission Photogrammetric analysis of images from the surface and from orbit is vital to operating to rovers and interpreting their scientific results. 1143 Mars Express HRSC Data Processing– Methods and Operational Aspects Automated multi-stereo processing techniques have been developed for the generation of high-resolution multi-spectral orthophoto imagery and digital terrain models within days after data acquisition. 1153 HRSC on Mars Express – Photogrammetric
and Cartographic Research A summary of the activities and results of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European spacecraft Mars Express. 1167 Joint Analysis of Visible and Infrared Images:
A “Magic Airbrush” for Qualitative and
Quantitative Topography Simple algebraic processing of co-registered visible and day and night thermal IR images can be used to separate albedo and thermal inertia variations from topographic shading. 1179 Combined Adjustment of MOC Stereo
Imagery and MOLA Altimetry Data The combined adjustment refines the Mars Global Surveyor trajectory data and provides accurate registration of various mapping data. 1187 Utility of Viking Orbiter Images and
Products for Mars Mapping The usefulness of Viking Orbiter images for mapping Mars 30 years after the mission using a combination of public domain and commercial software. 1197 An Analysis of Spacecraft Localization from
Descent Image Data for Pinpoint Landing on
Mars and Other Cratered Bodies The feasibility of pinpoint landing on Mars using crater features extracted from decent imagery. 1205 Automated Crater Detection, A New Tool for
Mars Cartography and Chronology An automated crater detection algorithm exploiting image data with potential for chronological research and geological analysis. 1219 ADVISER: Immersive Scientific Visualization
Applied to Mars Research and Exploration An advanced problem-solving environment bridging the gap between the cartography and geologic investigations of Mars with advanced visualization techniquesand an immersive virtual reality environment.
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