THE SPECTRAL RADIANCE OBSERVED BY THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (MRO) COMPACT RECONNAISSANCE IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR MARS (CRISM) IS A FUNCTION OF THE WAVELENGTH DEPENDENT SOURCE (SOLAR) ILLUMINATION ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER AND SURFACE BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE. THEREFORE ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION OF VISIBLE/NEAR INFRARED CRISM SPECTRA IS A PREREQUISITE FOR INTERPRETATION OF SURFACE SPECTRAL PROPERTIES. THE FIDELITY OF THE ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION IMPACTS THE ROBUSTNESS OF SPECTRAL INTERPRETATIONS AND IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES. THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO GENERATE DISCRETE ORDINATE RADIATIVE TRANSFER (DISORT)-BASED ATMOSPHERICALLY AND PHOTOMETRICALLY CORRECTED HIGH RESOLUTION CRISM TARGETED IMAGES AND MAKE THEM ACCESSIBLE TOTHE BROADER MARS SCIENCE COMMUNITY. OBJECTIVE 1: GENERATE HIGH-FIDELITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER-BASED ATMOSPHERICALLY AND PHOTOMETRICALLY CORRECTED CRISM IMAGE CUBES USING DISCRETE ORDINATE RADIATIVE TRANSFER (DISORT) MODEL RESULTS. OBJECTIVE 2: PRODUCE A PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM (PDS) ARCHIVE CONTAINING ATMOSPHERICALLY AND PHOTOMETRICALLY CORRECTED CRISM LAMBERT ALBEDO SPECTRAL IMAGE CUBES FOR USE BY THE BROADER MARS SCIENCE COMMUNITY.
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