An onboard data analysis method to track the seasonal polar caps on Mars

Wagstaff, Kiri L.; Castano, Rebecca; Chien, Steve; Ivanov, Anton B.; Pounders, Erik; Titus, Timothy N.

An onboard data analysis method to track the seasonal polar caps on Mars

Wagstaff, Kiri L.; Castano, Rebecca; Chien, Steve; Ivanov, Anton B.; Pounders, Erik; Titus, Timothy N.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/38344

Date: 2005-09

Keywords: Mars polar caps; onboard data analysis

Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005.

Citation: International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space, Munchen, Germany, September 5-9, 2005

Abstract:

In this paper, we evaluate our method on uncalibrated THEMIS data and find 1) agreement with manual cap edge identifications to within 28.2 km, and 2) high accuracy even with a reduced context window, yielding large reductions in memory requirements.

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