Planetary mapping
GIS Support
- GRASS lat/lon regions may be used as 0-360 longitude, not just 180 east+west.
- You can set and add custom ellipsoids, see the g.setproj module. Permanently adding custom ellipsoids can be added by hand, the config tables for that are plain self-documenting text files, so reasonably easy to edit. We would of course be happy to include standard planetary ellipsoids along with future versions GRASS, as they become available. see the $GISBASE/etc/*.table files.
Data
Data summary (1999):
http://publish.uwo.ca/~pjstooke/mapsummy.txt
Modules
- r.in.gdal will handle HDF and netCDF and many many more formats
- r.in.bin will load raw binary data
- see also the GRASS and GMT wiki page for interfacing with GMT Mapping Tools
Mars topography
See tutorial in GRASSNews volume 1:
- Global dataset of bathymetry and topography. GRASS Newsletter, 1:8-11, August 2004. ISSN 1614-8746.
