Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufm.p22d..11o&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #P22D-11
Physics
5494 Instruments And Techniques, 5499 General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
Mert Davies was a team member of the HRSC (High Resolution Stereo Camera) imaging experiment (PI: Gerhard Neukum) on ESA's Mars Express mission. This pushbroom camera is equipped with 9 forward- and backward-looking CCD lines, 5184 samples each, mounted in parallel, perpendicular to the spacecraft velocity vector. Flight image data with resolutions of up to 10m/pix (from an altitude of 250 km) will be acquired line by line as the spacecraft moves. This acquisition strategy will result in 9 separate almost completely overlapping image strips, each of them having more than 27,000 image lines, typically. [HRSC is also equipped with a superresolution channel for imaging of selected targets at up to 2.3 m/pixel]. The combined operation of the nadir and off-nadir CCD lines (+18.9°, 0°, -18.9°) gives HRSC a triple-stereo capability for precision mapping of surface topography and for modelling of spacecraft orbit- and camera pointing errors. The goals of the camera are to obtain accurate control point networks, Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in Mars-fixed coordinates, and color orthoimages at global (100% of the surface will be covered with resolutions better than 30m/pixel) and local scales. With his long experience in all aspects of planetary geodesy and cartography, Mert Davies was involved in the preparations of this novel Mars imaging experiment which included: (a) development of a ground data system for the analysis of triple-stereo images, (b) camera testing during airborne imaging campaigns, (c) re-analysis of the Mars control point network, and generation of global topographic orthoimage maps on the basis of MOC images and MOLA data, (d) definition of the quadrangle scheme for a new topographic image map series 1:200K, (e) simulation of synthetic HRSC imaging sequences and their photogrammetric analysis. Mars Express is scheduled for launch in May of 2003. We miss Mert very much!
Gerhard Neukum
Giese Bernd
Hoffmann Harald
Jaumann Ralf
Oberst Jürgen
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