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Articles | Volume XLI-B4
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B4-383-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B4-383-2016
13 Jun 2016
 | 13 Jun 2016

MASS MOVEMENTS' DETECTION IN HIRISE IMAGES OF THE NORTH POLE OF MARS

L. Fanara, K. Gwinner, E. Hauber, and J. Oberst

Keywords: Change detection, Mass Movements, Mars, HiRISE

Abstract. We are investigating change detection techniques to automatically detect mass movements at the steep north polar scarps of Mars, in order to improve our understanding of these dynamic processes. Here we focus on movements of blocks specifically. The precise detection of such small changes requires an accurate co-registration of the images, which is achieved by ortho-rectifying them using High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) Digital Terrain Models (DTMs). Moreover, we deal with the challenge of deriving the true shape of the moved blocks. In a next step, these results are combined with findings based on HiRISE DTMs from different points in time in order to estimate the volume of mass movements.