Abstract
Abstract. The Spectrometer and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem (SIMBIO-SYS) is a suite of three independentoptical heads that will provide images and spectroscopic observations of the Mercury surface. With the approaching of BepiColombo to Mercury, the definition of the observation strategies of each instrument is becoming mandatory also for testing the operation procedures in terms of feasibility and stereo performance. The use of synthetic images and a customized simulator have been considered a powerful way to accomplish this test. This simulation system allows to investigate all the possible stereo configurations (different stereo angles and different image combinations) with the opportunity to evaluate the operational feasibility thanks to the evaluation of the final stereo products. Working with a simulated dataset allows to control most of the geometrical aspects (both the projection model definition and the observation geometry) suggesting with the analysis of the stereo products the better configuration to be applied and to be considered in the definition of the observation strategy. Editorial note: The article originally published here accidentally contained copyrighted information. For this reason, both authors and editor agreed to retract the original article and replace it with a revised version. The editors confirm that the scholarly content is not affected and remains a valuable contribution to the proceedings. Should you have downloaded the original version of this article (prior to 9 October 2020), you are kindly asked to delete it and refrain from any redistribution. Thank you, the editors.
Highlights
BepiColombo is the first ambitious, multi-spacecraft mission to Mercury planned by European Space Agency in co-operation with Japanese Space Agency JAXA
Among the stereo validation activities executed with the flight model in laboratory (Re et al, 2015 and 2017) has demonstrated the actual capability of Stereo Camera (STC) to provide three dimensional products from the stereo pairs, the stereo system performances can be demonstrated in a virtual environment as proposed in this paper
The mission foresees to achieve local and regional highresolution DTMs and image mosaics to be complementary with contextual and global shape of the planet derived by the Stereo Camera
Summary
BepiColombo is the first ambitious, multi-spacecraft mission to Mercury planned by European Space Agency in co-operation with Japanese Space Agency JAXA. It has been launched in October 2018 from Kourou, French Guiana, starting a 7-year journey, which will bring the two modules to the innermost planet of the Solar System. Among the stereo validation activities executed with the flight model in laboratory (Re et al , 2015 and 2017) has demonstrated the actual capability of STC to provide three dimensional products from the stereo pairs, the stereo system performances can be demonstrated in a virtual environment as proposed in this paper. The present work describes the customized simulator that has been settled to evaluate the possible stereo observing strategies of the SIMBIO-SYS package providing some guide lines and constraints for the future scientific observation campaigns
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