Abstract
Several announcements in recent years by the United States and Canadian governments featuring their space exploration plan have one major thing in common: mission preparation at terrestrial analogue sites. Mission simulations carried out at these sites often involve traverses that allow access to areas of special interest needed to meet mission's objectives. Despite many recommendations, no WEB-based geographic information system exists for terrestrial analogues for mission planning. This paper reports the development of a WEB-based geographic information system for terrestrial analogues, illustrated using the example of the Haughton impact crater analogue site. This system demonstrates functionality that provides users with tools to plan their missions by enabling traverse planning between areas of interest based on a least cost path analysis method. The geographic information system will be composed of open source libraries and software, and will be compliant with Open GeoSpatial Consortium standards.
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