Planetary mapping

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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 done 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. An ellipse table with planetary spheroids (to put as $GISBASE/etc/*.table files) is available here.

Open Issues

  • r.out.gdal exports 'unknown' ellipsoids / datums, and also the reference meridian is named 'Greenwich'
  • wxGUI: following graphics might be misleading

Example of the use of GRASS GIS in Planetary Research

GRASS ps.map output as published in an article in Science journal

Data

Data summary (1999):

 http://publish.uwo.ca/~pjstooke/mapsummy.txt

Modules


Mars topography

See tutorial in GRASSNews volume 1:

Global dataset of bathymetry and topography. GRASS Newsletter, 1:8-11, August 2004. ISSN 1614-8746.

Screenshots

See also

  • Frigeri, A, Hare, T, Neteler, M., Coradini, A, Federico, C, Orosei, R. (2011). A research environment for digital planetary data processing and mapping using ISIS and GRASS GIS. Accepted by Planetary and Space Science [ DOI | PDF ]
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