Delivering Images for Mars Rover Science Planning

Author

Powell, Mark W. ; Crockett, Thomas M. ; Fox, Jason M. ; Joswig, Joseph ; Norris, Jeffrey S. ; Shams, Khawaja ; Torres, Recaredo Jay

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab./California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

1-8 March 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Mars rover images provide essential context for planning science activities. This work describes a method for delivering Mars rover images to operations planners that is highly efficient and scalable. Experimental results of various image compression strategies applied to rover images are given. Next, an adaptive level-of-detail tile-based delivery methodology for images is presented. With a tile-aware image browsing application, images of virtually limitless size may be distributed to participating scientists with great efficiency and thus provide a common collaborative context. This work also describes advances in mosaicking rover images in support of operations planning.

Keywords

aerospace computing; data compression; image coding; space vehicles; Mars rover science planning; adaptive level-of-detail tile-based delivery methodology; image compression strategies; image delivery; tile-aware image browsing application; Brightness; Cameras; Earth; Instruments; Lighting; Mars; Propulsion; Quantization; Relays; Technology planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1487-1

Electronic_ISBN

1095-323X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2008.4526581

Filename

4526581