TITLE:
A New Method of Mosaicking Context Camera (CTX) Images for the Geomorphological Study of Martian Landscape
AUTHORS:
Anil Chavan, Subham Sarkar, Adarsh Thakkar, Subhash Bhandari
KEYWORDS:
Mosaicking, ERDAS Imagine, Context Camera (CTX) Images, Mapping
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.11 No.8,
August
13,
2021
ABSTRACT: Various spacecraft and satellites from the world’s best space agencies are exploring Mars since 1970, constantly with great ability to capture the maximum amount of dataset for a better understanding of the red planet. In this paper, we propose a new method for making a mosaic of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft payload Context Camera (CTX) images. In this procedure, we used ERDAS Imagine for image rectification and mosaicking as a tool for image processing, which is a new and unique method of generating a mosaic of thousands of CTX images to visualize the large-scale areas. The output product will be applicable for mapping of Martian geomorphological features, 2D mapping of the linear feature with high resolution, crater counting, and morphometric analysis to a certain extent.