Image processing algorithm for the identification of Martian dust devil tracks in MOC and HiRISE images

This paper presents a method for automatic identification of dust devils tracks in MOC NA and HiRISE images of Mars. The method is based on Mathematical Morphology and is able to successfully process those images despite their difference in spatial resolution or size of the scene. A dataset of 200 i...

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Published in:Planetary and space science 2012-09, Vol.70 (1), p.46-58
Main Authors: Statella, Thiago, Pina, Pedro, da Silva, Erivaldo Antônio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dust devils
Feature detection
Mars
Mathematical Morphology
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Summary:This paper presents a method for automatic identification of dust devils tracks in MOC NA and HiRISE images of Mars. The method is based on Mathematical Morphology and is able to successfully process those images despite their difference in spatial resolution or size of the scene. A dataset of 200 images from the surface of Mars representative of the diversity of those track features was considered for developing, testing and evaluating our method, confronting the outputs with reference images made manually. Analysis showed a mean accuracy of about 92%. We also give some examples on how to use the results to get information about dust devils, namelly mean width, main direction of movement and coverage per scene. ► We present a method for detecting dust devils tracks in MOC NA and HiRISE images. ► The output of the method is a binary image showing tracks. ► Results were analyzed and the mean accuracy was 92.46%±5.22%. ► We also show how results can be used to calculate information about dust devils.
ISSN:0032-0633
1873-5088
DOI:10.1016/j.pss.2012.06.003