Topographic Mapping of the Moon
The aim here has been to produce Digital Elevation Model (DEM) mosaic
of the whole lunar surface from approximately a third of a million Clementine
stereo pair images and to fit the digital terrain models generated to
Clementine laser altimeter points. Use was made of automated digital stereo
matching software from University College London that is capable of finding
locations in the right image for corresponding pixels in the left image.
Although there remain several gaps in our final DEM due to lack of stereo
coverage, a planet-wide 5 km/pixel DEM of the Moon has been produced and
is being examined for previously unknown basins and impact craters. These
included sections of the lunar polar regions not previously mapped before.
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