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WE PROPOSE TO GENERATE AND MAKE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE A GLOBAL SEAM-CORRECTED MOSAIC OF MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (MRO) CONTEXT CAMERA (CTX) DATA RENDERED AT 5.0 M/PX REGISTERED TO MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (MOLA) DATA. ONCE COMPLETED THIS PRODUCT WILL REPRESENT A FACTOR OF 400 IMPROVEMENT IN SPATIAL RESOLUTION OVER THE NEXT HIGHEST-RESOLUTION GLOBAL MOSAIC DERIVED FROM 100 M/ PX THEMIS IR DATA. THIS PRODUCT WILL INCORPORATE VOLUMINOUS FEEDBACK WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM OVER 30 MARS SCIENTISTS FROM A RANGE SUBDISCIPLINES WHO HAVE BETA TESTED SELECT REGIONS AND FROM CROWD-SOURCED FEEDBACK OF OUR INITIAL GLOBAL BETA PRODUCT TO BE POSTED ONLINE LATER THIS CALENDAR YEAR. OUR AUTOMATED PIPELINE PRIORITIZES DATA HERITAGE SO THAT (1) USERS KNOW THE PARENT ORBIT AND ALL METADATA FOR EVERY PIXEL IN THE MOSAIC (2) THEY CAN INSTANTLY ACCESS PRE-BLENDED AND RAW VERSIONS OF ORIGINAL ORBITS AND (3) ALL SEAMS IN THE MOSAIC ARE MAPPED IN AN ACCOMPANYING VECTOR LAYER TO AVOID MISINTERPRETATION. TO DO THIS WE IMPLEMENT STATE-OF-THE-ART NON-DESTRUCTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES THAT ARE ENGINEERED TO PRESERVE ALL INFORMATION FROM INPUT DATA. THIS IS A MAJOR ADVANCE OVER TRADITIONAL SEQUENTIAL IMAGE PROCESSING ROUTINES THAT DESTROY INFORMATION DURING EACH STEP. WE EMPLOY A MODULAR APPROACH BY GENERATING 4 X4 BLENDED TILES THAT CAN BE INDIVIDUALLY UPDATED AND REPLACED WITHOUT HAVING TO REGENERATE THE GLOBAL PRODUCT. OUR FULL PROPOSAL WILL OUTLINE THE SUITE OF TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE A SEAMLESS GLOBAL MAP AND TO FULLY REGISTER THE MOSAIC TO THE ONLY CONSISTENT GLOBAL ELEVATION MAP OF MARS DERIVED FROM THE MOLA DATASET.

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WE PROPOSE TO GENERATE AND MAKE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE A GLOBAL SEAM-CORRECTED MOSAIC OF MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (MRO) CONTEXT CAMERA (CTX) DATA RENDERED AT 5.0 M/PX REGISTERED TO MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (MOLA) DATA. ONCE COMPLETED THIS PRODUCT WILL REPRESENT A FACTOR OF 400 IMPROVEMENT IN SPATIAL RESOLUTION OVER THE NEXT HIGHEST-RESOLUTION GLOBAL MOSAIC DERIVED FROM 100 M/ PX THEMIS IR DATA. THIS PRODUCT WILL INCORPORATE VOLUMINOUS FEEDBACK WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM OVER 30 MARS SCIENTISTS FROM A RANGE SUBDISCIPLINES WHO HAVE BETA TESTED SELECT REGIONS AND FROM CROWD-SOURCED FEEDBACK OF OUR INITIAL GLOBAL BETA PRODUCT TO BE POSTED ONLINE LATER THIS CALENDAR YEAR. OUR AUTOMATED PIPELINE PRIORITIZES DATA HERITAGE SO THAT (1) USERS KNOW THE PARENT ORBIT AND ALL METADATA FOR EVERY PIXEL IN THE MOSAIC (2) THEY CAN INSTANTLY ACCESS PRE-BLENDED AND RAW VERSIONS OF ORIGINAL ORBITS AND (3) ALL SEAMS IN THE MOSAIC ARE MAPPED IN AN ACCOMPANYING VECTOR LAYER TO AVOID MISINTERPRETATION. TO DO THIS WE IMPLEMENT STATE-OF-THE-ART NON-DESTRUCTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES THAT ARE ENGINEERED TO PRESERVE ALL INFORMATION FROM INPUT DATA. THIS IS A MAJOR ADVANCE OVER TRADITIONAL SEQUENTIAL IMAGE PROCESSING ROUTINES THAT DESTROY INFORMATION DURING EACH STEP. WE EMPLOY A MODULAR APPROACH BY GENERATING 4 X4 BLENDED TILES THAT CAN BE INDIVIDUALLY UPDATED AND REPLACED WITHOUT HAVING TO REGENERATE THE GLOBAL PRODUCT. OUR FULL PROPOSAL WILL OUTLINE THE SUITE OF TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE A SEAMLESS GLOBAL MAP AND TO FULLY REGISTER THE MOSAIC TO THE ONLY CONSISTENT GLOBAL ELEVATION MAP OF MARS DERIVED FROM THE MOLA DATASET. · GrantIndex