ISPRS-Archives ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B6-71-2016 THE ‘MOON MAPPING’ PROJECT TO PROMOTE COOPERATION BETWEEN STUDENTS OF ITALY AND CHINA Scaioni M. 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4058-6176 Giommi P. 2 Brunetti M. T. 3 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7041-7301 Carli C. 4 Cerroni P. 4 Cremonese G. 5 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9021-1140 Forlani G. 6 Gamba P. 7 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9576-6337 Lavagna M. 8 Melis M. T. 9 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0970-1244 Massironi M. 10 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7757-8818 Ori G. 11 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6460-1476 Salese F. 11 Zinzi A. 2 12 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5263-5348 Xie G. 13 Kang Z. 14 Shi R. 15 Sun Y. 16 Wu Y. 17 Dept. of Architecture, Built environment and Construction engineering (ABC), Politecnico di Milano via Ponzio 31, 20133 Milano, Italy ASI Science Data Center, Italian Space Agency (ASI-ASDC), Roma, Italy Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection – Italian National Research Council (IRPI-CNR) via Madonna Alta, 126, 06128 Perugia, Italy National Institute for Astrophysics, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology (INAF-IAPS) via fosso del cavaliere, 00133 Roma, Italy National Institute for Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory of Padua (INAF-OAPD), Padova, Italy Dept. of Civil, Environmental, Land Management Engineering and Architecture (DICATeA), University of Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, Italy Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, via Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy Dept. of Aerospace Science & Technology, Politecnico di Milano, via La Masa 34, 20156 Milano, Italy Dept. of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, via Trentino 51, 09127 Cagliari, Italy Dept. of Geosciences, University of Padua, via G. Gradenigo 6, 35131 Padova, Italy IRSPS - Dept. of Engineering and Geology, Università d’Annunzio, 65127 Pescara, Italy National Institute for Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory of Rome (INAF-OAR), Roma, Italy Center of Space Exploration, China Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China Dept. of Remote Sensing and Geo-Information Engineering, School of Land Science and Technology China University of Geosciences, Xueyuan Road 29, Haidian District, 100083 Beijing, China School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University Xianlin Boulevard 163, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, China 17 06 2016 XLI-B6 71 78 This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/isprs-archives-XLI-B6-71-2016.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/isprs-archives-XLI-B6-71-2016.pdf

The research project ‘Moon Mapping’ has been established in 2014 between the Italian and Chinese Governments to promote cooperation and exchange between undergraduate students from both countries. The operational phase of the project started in early 2015, and will end in 2017, for a total length of three years. The main aim is to train new scholars to be able to work on different kinds of remotely-sensed data collected over the Moon surface by the Chinese space missions Chang’E-1/2. The project coordination has been assigned to the Italian Space Agency for the Italian side and to the Center of Space Exploration, China Ministry of Education, for the Chinese side. Several Chinese universities and Italian national research institutes and universities have been officially involved in this project. Six main research topics have been identified: (1) map of the solar wind ion; (2) geomorphological map of the Moon; (3) data preprocessing of Chang’E-1 mission; (4) map of element distribution; (5) establishment of 3D digital visualization system; and (6) compilation and publication of a tutorial on joint lunar mapping.