Galilean satellite geomorphology

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Sep 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983uate.rept.....m&link_type=abstract

Final Report Arizona State Univ., Tempe. Dept. of Geology.

Physics

Geophysics

Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Galilean Satellites, Geomorphology, Image Processing, Iteration, Correlation, Geophysics, Photometry, Topography

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Research on this task consisted of the development and initial application of photometric and photoclinometric models using interactive computer image processing and graphics. New programs were developed to compute viewing and illumination angles for every picture element in a Voyager image using C-matrices and final Voyager ephemerides. These values were then used to transform each pixel to an illumination-oriented coordinate system. An iterative integration routine permits slope displacements to be computed from brightness variations, and correlated in the cross-sun direction, resulting in two dimensional topographic data. Figure 1 shows a 'wire-mesh' view of an impact crater on Ganymede, shown with a 10-fold vertical exaggeration. The crater, about 20 km in diameter, has a central mound and raised interior floor suggestive of viscous relaxation and rebound of the crater's topography. In addition to photoclinometry, the computer models that have been developed permit an examination on non-topographically-derived variations in surface brightness.

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