Simulating a MER Landing Site Remote Sensing Data Set for the 2002 FIDO Field Test

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufm.p22a0399a&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #P22A-0399

Physics

5464 Remote Sensing, 5494 Instruments And Techniques, 6207 Comparative Planetology, 6225 Mars

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To support the Field Integrated Design and Operations (FIDO) rover field test for Mars Exploration Rover (MER) science team training, we assembled a portfolio of modified terrestrial remote-sensing data to imitate the datasets available for MER landing sites. The MER landing sites data we synthesized were:\(i) Viking MDIM base images at around 200 m/pixel, \(ii) interpolated 1/64th degree Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter (MOLA) topography, \(iii) MOLA topographic profiles, \(iv) some number of MGS Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) high resolution strips, \(v) Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging Spectrometer (THEMIS) visible (VIS) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance images, and \(vi) THEMIS thermal IR (TIR) emissivity images. \Terrestrial datasets selected and modified were (respectively):\(i) Landsat TM composite images 90 m/pixel degraded to 180 m/pixel, \(ii) USGS 90 m/pixel DEM degraded to 450 m/pixel, \(iii) the same USGS 90 m/pixel DEM was individually sampled to generate 100 m shot size MOLA profiles, \(iv) USGS Digital Orthoquad 1 m/pixel aerial photographs, mosaiced, cropped and re-sampled to 1.5, 3, and 7 m/pixel, \(v) ASTER VIS and SWIR Level 2 reflectance, and \(vi) ASTER TIR emissivity images.\The MER Athena science team was able to successfully assess and evaluate the scientific potential of their test "landing ellipse" using these data, suggesting that the team will be capable of similar interpretive extrapolation on Mars.

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