Abstract
The Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z stereo camera investigation enables the generation of three dimension (3D) data products needed to visualize and analyze rocks, outcrops, and other geological and aeolian features. The Planetary Robotics Vision Processing framework “PRoViP” as well as the Instrument Data System on a tactical—sol-by-sol—timeframe generate 3D vision products, such as panoramas, distance maps, and textured meshes. Structure-from-motion used by the Advanced Science Targeting Toolkit for Robotic Operations (ASTTRO) “Landform” tool and long baseline stereo pipelines add to the 3D vision products' suite on various scales. Data fusion with textured meshes from satellite imagery and 3D data analysis and interpretation of the resulting large 3D data sets is realized by visualization assets like the Planetary Robotics Vision 3D Viewer PRo3D, the 3D Geographical Information System GIS CAMP (Campaign Analysis Mapping and Planning tool), the ASTTRO 3D data presentation and targeting tool, and the Mastcam-Z planning tool Viewpoint. The pipelines' workflows and the user-oriented features of the visualization assets, shared across the Mars 2020 mission, are reported. The individual role and interplay, complements and synergies of the individual frameworks are explained. Emphasis is laid on publicly available 3D vision data products and tools. A representative set of scientific use cases from planetary geology, aeolian activity, soil analysis and impact science illustrates the scientific workflow, and public data deployment modes are briefly outlined, demonstrating that 3D vision processing and visualization is an essential mission-wide asset to solve important planetary science questions such as prevailing wind direction, soil composition, or geologic origin.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e2022EA002532 |
| Journal | Earth and Space Science |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2023 |
Funding
The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their time and efforts and sincerely appreciate the valuable comments and advice to improve the manuscript in the spirit of its objectives. JOANNEUM RESEARCH, VRVis and the Austrian Academy of Sciences receive/d funding from ESA PRODEX Contract PEA 4000117520 and from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, ASAP‐18 Project 892662 “Mars‐3D”. VRVis is funded by the Austrian Ministry of Climate Action and Energy, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, Styria, the Styrian Business Promotion Agency, Tyrol, and the Vienna Business Agency in the scope of COMET—Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies (879730) which is managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency. Opscode LLC receives funding from Arizona State University for development of Viewpoint for Mastcam‐Z, and from Malin Space Science Systems for development of Viewpoint for WATSON. S. Gupta receives UKSA funding (ST/X002373/1). A portion of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004). Funding for the U.S‐based authors of this work was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars 2020 Project, either directly or via subcontracts from the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arizona State University (subcontract 1411125). The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their time and efforts and sincerely appreciate the valuable comments and advice to improve the manuscript in the spirit of its objectives. JOANNEUM RESEARCH, VRVis and the Austrian Academy of Sciences receive/d funding from ESA PRODEX Contract PEA 4000117520 and from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, ASAP-18 Project 892662 “Mars-3D”. VRVis is funded by the Austrian Ministry of Climate Action and Energy, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, Styria, the Styrian Business Promotion Agency, Tyrol, and the Vienna Business Agency in the scope of COMET—Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies (879730) which is managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency. Opscode LLC receives funding from Arizona State University for development of Viewpoint for Mastcam-Z, and from Malin Space Science Systems for development of Viewpoint for WATSON. S. Gupta receives UKSA funding (ST/X002373/1). A portion of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004). Funding for the U.S-based authors of this work was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars 2020 Project, either directly or via subcontracts from the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Arizona State University (subcontract 1411125).
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105105 Geochemistry
- 105403 Geoinformatics
Keywords
- Mars 2020
- Mars exploration
- Mastcam-Z
- visualization
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