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AS PART OF MY OUTER PLANETS RESEARCH (OPR) PROGRAM-FUNDED GLOBAL GEOLOGIC MAP OF IO (HTTP://PUBS.USGS.GOV/SIM/3168/) I BEGAN CONSTRUCTION OF A DIGITAL IO DATABASE. THIS DATABASE BUILT IN ARCGIS ON TOP OF THE DIGITAL GIS PROJECT CONTAINING THE GEOLOGIC MAP SHAPEFILES AND THE COMBINED GALILEO-VOYAGER GLOBAL MOSAICS PRODUCED BY THE USGS FOR THAT PROJECT WAS INTENDED TO BECOME A DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ALL USEFUL IO DATA COLLECTED DURING AND AFTER NASA S GALILEO MISSION TO JUPITER. SINCE THE GEOLOGIC MAP WAS COMPLETED AND PUBLISHED IN 2011 WE HAVE BEEN ADDING ADDITIONAL DATASETS TO THE DATABASE INCLUDING: 1) ADAPTIVE OPTICS-DERIVED EARTH-BASED TELESCOPIC MAPS OF IO S HOTSPOTS PRODUCED BY IMKE DE PATER AND HER COLLEAGUES STEREO DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS (DTMS) OF IO PRODUCED BY OLIVER WHITE AND PAUL SCHENK REGIONAL SCALE GALILEO SOLID STATE IMAGER (SSI) MOSAICS AND DERIVED GEOLOGIC MAPS PUBLISHED BY MYSELF AND COLLEAGUES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS HOT SPOT POWER AND TEMPERATURE INFORMATION DERIVED FROM VARIOUS DATABASES AND MODEL RESULTS OF INTERIOR HEATING DERIVED FROM THE GLOBAL MAP BY CHRISTOPHER HAMILTON ET AL. HOWEVER SINCE THE IO GRANTS HAVE LONG ENDED WE LACK THE TIME AND FUNDING TO COMPLETE THE DATABASE AND MAKE IT A TRULY USEFUL PRODUCT BY HOSTING IT ON A PLATFORM THAT WILL ENABLE WIDER COMMUNITY ACCESS. THUS THE PURPOSE OF THIS 1-YEAR PROPOSAL IS TO REQUEST FUNDS TO COMPLETE THE IO DATABASE AND MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE WIDER PLANETARY COMMUNITY THROUGH THE PDS AND THROUGH ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY S JMARS (JAVA MISSION-PLANNING AND ANALYSIS FOR REMOTE SENSING) PLATFORM. THE CONCEPT IS TO HAVE ALL USEFUL GALILEO-BASED AND POST-GALILEO-DERIVED DATA OF JUPITER S VOLCANIC MOON IO ORGANIZED IN A GIS PLATFORM WHERE ALL OF THE DATA ARE SPATIALLY CO-REGISTERED. THIS WOULD ENABLE EASY STUDY OF SPECIFIC VOLCANIC FEATURES ACROSS A VARIETY OF DATA SETS. FURTHERMORE WITH THE INCLUSION OF POST-GALILEO HOT SPOT AND TEMPERATURE DATA FROM EARTH-BASED TELESCOPES AND THE FEBRUARY 2007 NEW HORIZONS FLYBY THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SPECIFIC VOLCANIC CENTERS CAN BE TRACED AS WELL. WITH ALL OF THE AVAILABLE IO DATA COLLECTED IN ONE DATABASE THIS PRODUCT WOULD SERVE AS A KEY COMPONENT FOR AN IO PLANETARY SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (PSDI). NASA S MAPPING AND PLANETARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE TEAM (MAPSIT) THE NASA ADVISORY GROUP CHARTERED TO OVERSEE CARTOGRAPHY AND PLANETARY SPATIAL DATA ISSUES ACROSS THE PLANETARY SCIENCE DIVISION IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING A ROADMAP AND ADVISORIES FOR ALL NASA ADVISORY OR ASSESSMENT GROUPS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSDIS FOR ALL OF THE SOLID-BODY PLANETS MOONS AND SMALL BODIES THAT HAVE BEEN OR WILL BECOME TARGETS OF NASA PLANETARY MISSIONS. THUS THE PRODUCT OF THIS WORK BOTH A ARCGIS AND JMARS-BASED IO DATABASE WOULD NOT ONLY 1) SERVE AS A TOOL TO CONDUCT FUTURE IO RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATE COMPARISON OF ACTIVITY AT SPECIFIC VOLCANIC CENTERS AS WELL AS PLAN OBSERVATIONS FOR FUTURE IO MISSIONS; BUT ALSO 2) SERVE AS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE APPROACH TO DEVELOPING PSDIS FOR GEOLOGICALLY INTERESTING TARGETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. FUNDING IS REQUESTED TO SUPPORT TIME FOR PI WILLIAMS TO REVIEW IO DATA SETS AND THE FINAL CO-REGISTERED DATABASE FOR CO-I MOSES MILAZZO TO REPROCESS THE IO SSI IMAGE MOSAICS IN ISIS3 AND REPROJECT THEM USING THE CONTROL POINT NETWORK MADE FOR THE GLOBAL MAP FOR USE IN OUR DATABASE FOR ASU GIS SPECIALIST DAVID NELSON TO COMPLETE THE DATABASE IN ARCGIS AND FOR CO-I SCOTT DICKENSHIED TO ADAPT THE GIS DATABASE INTO JMARS FORMAT. THE PROPOSED WORK IS RELEVANT TO THE GOALS OF THE PDART PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY TO PRODUCE HIGHER-ORDER DATA PRODUCTS THAT WILL ENHANCE THE SCIENTIFIC RETURN FROM DATA ACQUIRED BY NASA MISSIONS (IN THIS CASE VOYAGER AND GALILEO MISSIONS AS WELL AS NSF-FUNDED TELESCOPIC STUDIES OF IO).

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