Global Digital Mapping of the Moon

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..335e&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 335

Physics

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Albedo, Cartography, Clementine, Geodesy, Moon

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The Clementine spacecraft imaged more than 99% of the Moon's surface at resolutions of 80-250 m/pixel; we are in the process of assembling a global digital base map. A new geodetic network has been constructed from ~43,000 images and ~265,000 match points. The average relative positional error is about 80 m, less than 1 pixel. The absolute positional accuracy should be ~250 m/pixel on average, which will facilitate future lunar exploration. Previous control networks achieved accuracies of ~1-2 km/pixel on the near side and ~10-20 km/pixel on the far side. The final base map will consist of 750-nm normalized albedo. The processed dataset will be distributed on a 7-volume set of CD-ROMs and made available via the Internet. The imaging node of the Planetary Data System (PDS) has developed a program called MapMaker which facilitates the construction of digital maps with user-specified latitude-longitude limits and scale.

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