Image Analysis

Dynamic Landmarking for Surface Feature Identification and Change Detection

Given the large volume of images being sent back from remote spacecraft, there is a need for automated analysis techniques that can quickly identify interesting features in those images. Feature identification in individual images and automated …

Change Detection in Mars Orbital Images Using Dynamic Landmarking

As of December 2009, there are more than 1,500,000 orbital images of Mars available on the Planetary Data System's Imaging Node (from Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Global Surveyor, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). The volume of image data is …

Automatic Landmark Identification in Mars Orbital Imagery

We have developed new methods for automatically identifying landmarks such as craters, gullies, dark slope streaks, and dust devil tracks in remote sensing imagery. These methods are based on statistical measures of local terrain salience. The …