Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufm.p51b0492g&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P51B-0492
Physics
Optics
5134 Thermal Properties, 5464 Remote Sensing, 5470 Surface Materials And Properties, 5494 Instruments And Techniques
Scientific paper
It is well known that surface roughness affects spectral slope in the infrared. For the first time, we applied a three-dimensional thermal model to a high resolution lunar topography map to study the effects of surface roughness on lunar thermal emission spectra. We applied a numerical instrument model of the upcoming Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE) to simulate the expected instrument response to surface roughness variations. The Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment (DLRE) will launch in late 2008 onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). DLRE is a nine-channel radiometer designed to study the thermal and petrologic properties of the lunar surface. DLRE has two solar channels (0.3-3.0 μm high/low sensitivity), three mid-infrared petrology channels (7.55-8.05, 8.10-8.40 8.40-8.70 μm), and four thermal infrared channels (12.5-25, 25-50, 50-100, and 100-200 μm). The topographic data we used was selected from a USGS Hadley Rille DEM (from Apollo 15 Panoramic Camera data) with 10 m resolution (M. Rosiek; personal communication). To remove large scale topographic features, we applied a 200 x 200 pixel boxcar high-pass filter to a relatively flat portion of the DEM. This "flattened" surface roughness map served as the basis for much of this study. We also examined the unaltered topography. Surface temperatures were calculated using a three-dimensional ray tracing thermal model. We created temperature maps at numerous solar incidence angles with nadir viewing geometry. A DLRE instrument model, which includes filter spectral responses and detector fields of view, was applied to the high resolution temperature maps. We studied both the thermal and petrologic effects of surface roughness. For the thermal study, the output of the optics model is a filter specific temperature, scaled to a DLRE footprint of < 500 m. For the petrologic study, we examined the effect of the surface roughness induced spectral slope on the DLRE's ability to locate the Christiansen Feature, which is a good compositional indicator. With multiple thermal infrared channels over a wide spectral range, DLRE will be well suited to measure temperature variations due to surface roughness. Any necessary compensation (e.g. correction for spectral slope) to the mid-infrared petrology data will be performed.
Greenhagen Benjamin
Paige David A.
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