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Articles | Volume XL-4
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-4-249-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-4-249-2014
23 Apr 2014
 | 23 Apr 2014

3D Data Products and Web-GIS for Mars Rover Mission for Seamless Visualisation from Orbit to Ground-level

Y. Tao, J.-P. Muller, K. Willner, J. Morley, J. Sprinks, C. Traxler, and G. Paar

Keywords: HRSC, CTX, HiRISE, MER, MSL, ORI, DTM, co-registration, wide baseline stereo reconstruction, ground-to-orbit fusion, web-GIS, 3D visualisation

Abstract. This paper presents a wide range of research and processing results in the area of multi-resolution orbital data co-registration, multiresolution ground 3D reconstruction, and orbit-to-ground data fusion, achieved within the EU-FP7 PRoVisG and PRoViDE project. We focus on three NASA rover missions, MER-A, MER-B, and MSL, to provide examples of automated methods for producing coregistered, multi-resolution 3D products. We highlight the mis-registration discovered between current HiRISE to HRSC datasets, CTX to HRSC and HiRISE to CTX co- results, wide baseline stereo reconstruction results of rover imagery, ground-to-orbit coregistration, i.e. reconstructed wide baseline ground ORI and HiRISE ORI co-registration, and extensive exploitation of the coregistered datasets in visualisation and interactive web-GIS.