Software development and technical support for photogrammetric and cartographic data processing. HRSC-high resolution stereo camera experiment Mars-94 mission Final report

The acquisition and processing of planetary remote sensing data is commonly restricted to frame camera imagery. Since the development of multi-line sensors the three-dimensional multispectral data acquisition of planetary surfaces became possible. To use these data adequate photogrammetric and cartographic processing techniques are necessary. The goal of this project was to develop these techniques and to realize them in form of a software system. Based on the VICAR processing system it was the intention to do this yielding a nearly complete automization. By the development of several software components for image matching, the generation of Digital Terrain Models, Orthoimages, Image Mosaics and the sheets of a newly designed Topographic Image Map series these investigations succeded. The developments can be used for the Mars96 cameras HRSC and WAOSS as well as, with some adaptations, for these or other similar systems on upcoming planetary missions. The newly designed Topographic Image Map series in a scale of 1:200,000 was already appricated by the international community and is regarded as a representative for modern digital cartography. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F99B120+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany); DLR Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Bonn (Germany)DEGerman