Marsoweb: a collaborative web facility for Mars landing site and global data studies

D. Glenn Deardorff; Virginia C. Gulick

doi:10.1117/12.473913

9 June 2003 Marsoweb: a collaborative web facility for Mars landing site and global data studies

D. Glenn Deardorff, Virginia C. Gulick

Proceedings Volume 5009, Visualization and Data Analysis 2003; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.473913
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

Marsoweb is a collaborative web environment that has been developed for the Mars research community to better visualize and analyze Mars orbiter data. Its goal is to enable online data discovery by providing an intuitive, interactive interface to data from the Mars Global Surveyor and other orbiters. Recently, it has served a prominent role as a resource center for those involved in landing site selection for the Mars Explorer Rover 2003 missions. In addition to hosting a repository of landing site memoranda and workshop talks, it includes a Java-based interface to a variety of datamaps and images. This interface enables the display and numerical querying of data, and allows data profiles to be rendered from user-drawn cross-sections. High-resolution Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images (currently, over 100,000) can be graphically perused; browser-based image processing tools can be used on MOC images of potential landing sites. An automated VRML atlas allows users to construct "flyovers" of their own regions-of-interest in 3D. These capabilities enable Marsoweb to be used for general global data studies, in addition to those specific to landing site selection. As of September 2002, over 70,000 distinct users from NASA, USGS, academia, and the general public have accessed Marsoweb.

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D. Glenn Deardorff and Virginia C. Gulick "Marsoweb: a collaborative web facility for Mars landing site and global data studies", Proc. SPIE 5009, Visualization and Data Analysis 2003, (9 June 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.473913

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