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Description:
High-quality planetary maps and 3D terrain models have become essential
for NASA to plan exploration missions and conduct science. This is
particularly true for robotic missions to the Moon and Mars, where maps
are used for site selection, traverse planning, and planetary science.
This is also important for studies of climate change on Earth, where
maps are used to track environmental change (such as polar ice
movement).
In this talk, we will describe how the Intelligent Robotics Group
(http://irg.arc.nasa.gov)
at NASA Ames builds highly accurate, large-scale planetary maps and 3D
terrain models from orbital imagery using novel statistical
stereographic and photometric techniques. Orbital imagery includes data
captured by the Apollo missions, on-going NASA and international
missions, and commercial providers (such as Digital Globe). The
mapmaking software that we have developed (Vision Workbench, Ames Stereo
Pipeline, Neo-Geography Toolkit) is available as open-source and is
widely used by scientists and mission planners.
tags: lunchtalk, space, model, technology
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