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The Web-Based Interactive Mars Analysis and Research System for HRSC and the iMars Project

Walter, SHG; Muller, JP; Sidiropoulos, P; Tao, Y; Gwinner, K; Putri, ARD; Kim, JR; ... Schreiner, BP; + view all (2018) The Web-Based Interactive Mars Analysis and Research System for HRSC and the iMars Project. Earth and Space Science , 5 (7) 10.1029/2018EA000389. Green open access

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Abstract

Web-based planetary image dissemination platforms usually show outline coverage of available data and offer querying for metadata as well as preview and download. While the usual form of presenting multiorbit data sets is to merge the data into a larger mosaic, for change detection purposes it is essential to maintain the individual images as an important snapshot of the planetary surface taken at a specific time. We introduce the web-based interactive Mars Analysis and Research System (iMARS web-GIS), which is specialized on planetary surface change analysis with novel tools for simultaneous visualization of single images as time series in their original sequence. As the data foundation, we use the vast quantity of automatically coregistered orthoimages and digital terrain models (DTM) from three NASA missions' instruments processed and ingested in the context of the EU-funded iMars project. The baseline for the coregistered images are the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) multiorbit quadrangle image mosaics, which are based on bundle block-adjusted multiorbit DTM mosaics. Additionally, we make use of the existing along-track bundle-adjusted HRSC single images and DTMs available at the planetary data archives. We provide two science cases for exemplary workflows of the multitemporal single-image analysis, demonstrating the dedicated tools for surface change interpretation-one near Mawrth Vallis and one near the south pole. A web mapping application including the presented functionality has been implemented and is available at http://imars.planet.fu-berlin.de with the iMars project website (http://www.i-mars.eu/web-gis) serving as a mirror.

Type: Article
Title: The Web-Based Interactive Mars Analysis and Research System for HRSC and the iMars Project
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1029/2018EA000389
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EA000389
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Keywords: Surface changes, web‐GIS, Mars, planetary mapping, iMars, HRSC
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10054715
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