Image and Data Processing for InSight Lander Operations and Science

The Instrument Site Selection and deployment for the upcoming Mars InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander is highly dependent on image products, particularly mosaics, created from the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) and Instrument Context Ca...

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Published in:Space science reviews 2019-03, Vol.215 (2), p.1-53, Article 22
Main Authors: Abarca, H., Deen, R., Hollins, G., Zamani, P., Maki, J., Tinio, A., Pariser, O., Ayoub, F., Toole, N., Algermissen, S., Soliman, T., Lu, Y., Golombek, M., Calef, F., Grimes, K., De Cesare, C., Sorice, C.
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Language:English
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Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
Astrophysics and Astroparticles
Bundle adjustment
Cameras
Data processing
Geodesy
Heat transport
Image processing
Mars
Mesh generation
Mosaics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Planetology
Radiometric correction
Site selection
Software
Software packages
Space Exploration and Astronautics
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics
Telemetry
The InSight Mission to Mars II
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Summary:The Instrument Site Selection and deployment for the upcoming Mars InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander is highly dependent on image products, particularly mosaics, created from the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) and Instrument Context Camera (ICC). When data are downlinked, the Multimission Image Processing Lab (MIPL) at JPL will process image and instrument data to aid in the deployment and monitoring of these instruments. MIPL’s functions include raw telemetry processing, stereo correlation, mosaic generation, terrain mesh generation, radiometric correction, pointing correction (bundle adjustment), and the creation of products such as instrument deployment maps, surface normal products, slope products, XYZ point clouds, and roughness map layers. A software pipeline performs systematic, automated execution of the programs that create these products on every image and stereo pair received, while the pointing correction and most mosaics are hand-generated by the MIPL team members for testing and surface operations. Several mission operations software packages are used to view, query, and analyze the processed images and mosaics for placing the main science instruments for the mission.
ISSN:0038-6308
1572-9672
DOI:10.1007/s11214-019-0587-9