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Cartographic Standards. Body-Fixed Rotating Co-ordinate Systems Software, and ‘cubes’... 26th September, 2002: Data Prep. Workshop Dave Heather (ESTEC). Body-Fixed Rotating Co-ordinate Systems. There are two fundamental co-ordinate systems in planetary mapping
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Cartographic Standards Body-Fixed Rotating Co-ordinate Systems Software, and ‘cubes’... 26th September, 2002: Data Prep. Workshop Dave Heather (ESTEC)
Body-Fixed Rotating Co-ordinate Systems • There are two fundamental co-ordinate systems in planetary mapping • Plantocentric (planet at centre, fixed rotator) • Planetographic (planet rotates beneath ‘fixed’ spacecraft or sub-Earth point) • These are discrete from the final map projection
Planetocentric System • Co-ordinates • Origin: COM • Long: increasing to east • Lat: positive to north, from equatorial plane (spherical) • Used for: Mars post-1992, but not exclusively • Pros: Requested officially as a standard by the PDS • Cons: not precise for locating places on planetary surface
Planetographic System • Co-ordinates • Origin: COM • Long: increasing with planet rotation (to west for prograde) • Lat: positive to north, local vertical from equatorial plane • Used for: Mars pre-1992 • Pros: Precise location of surface features, accounts for shape • Cons: no longer standard for PDS
Is this in the label? • GROUP = IMAGE_MAP_PROJECTION • A_AXIS_RADIUS = 1737.4000000 • B_AXIS_RADIUS = 1737.4000000 • C_AXIS_RADIUS = 1737.4000000 • POSITIVE_LONGITUDE_DIRECTION = EAST • MAP_PROJECTION_TYPE = 'SINUSOIDAL_EQUAL-AREA' • MAP_SCALE = 0.1000000 • MAP_RESOLUTION = 303.2334900 • EASTERNMOST_LONGITUDE = 190.0200958 • WESTERNMOST_LONGITUDE = 180.0000000 • MINIMUM_LATITUDE = 48.9868011 • MAXIMUM_LATITUDE = 56.0000000 • CENTER_LONGITUDE = 195.0000000 • REFERENCE_LATITUDE = 0.0000000 • REFERENCE_LONGITUDE = 0.0000000 • MAP_PROJECTION_ROTATION = 0.0000000
Planetocentric (’02 onwards) Inconsistant with previous data Assumes sphere for projections Requires separate model of planet shape for actual planetary positions As measured in space missions Directly compatible with S/W Standard accepted by PDS Planetographic (Pre ’02) Consistent with previous data Acknowledges non-spherical nature of planet Same model for positioning can be used for map projection Requires transformation from space mission measurements Requires transformation for most S/W (simple) Not ‘PDS standard’ The Ongoing Mars Feud
MOC planetocentric MOLA planetographic 0.3 degrees latitude difference max. Equates to 20 km difference max Transformation required! MOC vs MOLA MOLA MOC
What Should We Use Then? • For full PDS compliance, Mars data should be planetocentric • Planetographic will still be acceptable though! • Lander surveys, planetographic more accurate • Conversion is easy and routinely available • BOTTOM LINE: • Use whatever you’re comfortable with!!
Co-ordinate conversion simple and standard for most up to date processing packages Image and Data Processing Packages: ISIS (Geom, Plansinu, etc.) tfiles ENVI IDL VICAR etc. etc. All of these can convert systems and reproject images Some Basic Software Available
What is this ISIS thing? • Integrated Software for Imaging Spectrometers • Uses cubes • MGS, MPF, Clementine, Viking etc. • Geometric, photometric, radiometric etc. • More than 45 geometric routines in ISIS. • See website: http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/isis-bin/isis.cgi
ISIS cubes • 3-dimensional data format • x and y plane containing data • z plane contains stacked bands (for example) • Sub-cube specifier allows processing of any part of a cube.
Cube File Structure ______________________ . / / /| . ^ / backplane / / | } suffix . / /_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _/_ _/ | } region . / / / /| | . / d / / / |c | . / n / / / |o | . / a / core / / |r | . / B / / / |n | . / /_________________/___/ e |e | . /----------------> | | | d e|r | . | Sample | | | i n | /| l . | s | | |s a |/ / a . | L p | | | l / / r . | i a | core | |p /|/ t . | n t | | | / / c . | e i | | | / / e . | a | | | / / p . | l |_________________|___|/ / s . v | bottomplane | | / } suffix . |_________________|___|/ } region . spatial ^^^ . suffix region .
The Clementine Example • Raw data to cube clem2isis • Radiometric correction and file merging: calmrg or expmrg • Geometric correction: plansinu and geom • Photometric correction: photom • These are mission specific - generic routines are also available.
Here end-eth the lesson…. Happy data-producing!