Abstract
Abstract. The integrated photogrammetric mapping system flown on the last three Apollo lunar missions (15, 16, and 17) in the early 1970s incorporated a Metric (mapping) Camera, a high-resolution Panoramic Camera, and a star camera and laser altimeter to provide support data. In an ongoing collaboration, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Astrogeology Science Center, the Intelligent Robotics Group of the NASA Ames Research Center, and Arizona State University are working to achieve the most complete cartographic development of Apollo mapping system data into versatile digital map products. These will enable a variety of scientific/engineering uses of the data including mission planning, geologic mapping, geophysical process modelling, slope dependent correction of spectral data, and change detection. Here we describe efforts to control the oblique images acquired from the Apollo 15 Metric Camera.
Highlights
In the early 1970s, an integrated photogrammetric mapping system flew on the last three Apollo lunar missions AS15, AS16, and AS17 (AS refers to Apollo-Saturn, the Kennedy Space Center designation for manned Apollo flights)
We describe the lunar missions and the MC, preparation of image and support data, the photogrammetric control process itself, resulting products, and lastly, ongoing and future work
As a result of pre-flight analyses and in situ observations and measurements obtained by the landed Apollo missions (e.g., Masursky et al, 1978), this equatorial zone encompasses perhaps the most studied portion of the Moon, and these analyses have established a fundamental baseline for lunar surface characterization that is unmatched in other regions
Summary
In the early 1970s, an integrated photogrammetric mapping system flew on the last three Apollo lunar missions AS15, AS16, and AS17 (AS refers to Apollo-Saturn, the Kennedy Space Center designation for manned Apollo flights). In an ongoing collaboration, the USGS Astrogeology Science Center (ASC), the Intelligent Robotics Group of the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), and Arizona State University (ASU), are working to achieve the most complete cartographic development of Apollo mapping system data into versatile digital map products. These have a variety of possible scientific/engineering uses including mission planning, geologic mapping, geophysical process modelling, slope dependent correction of spectral data, and change detection. We describe the lunar missions and the MC, preparation of image and support data, the photogrammetric control process itself, resulting products, and lastly, ongoing and future work
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