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3D Lunar Terrain Reconstruction from Apollo Images

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2009)

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Generating accurate three dimensional planetary models is becoming increasingly important as NASA plans manned missions to return to the Moon in the next decade. This paper describes a 3D surface reconstruction system called the Ames Stereo Pipeline that is designed to produce such models automatically by processing orbital stereo imagery. We discuss two important core aspects of this system: (1) refinement of satellite station positions and pose estimates through least squares bundle adjustment; and (2) a stochastic plane fitting algorithm that generalizes the Lucas-Kanade method for optimal matching between stereo pair images.. These techniques allow us to automatically produce seamless, highly accurate digital elevation models from multiple stereo image pairs while significantly reducing the influence of image noise. Our technique is demonstrated on a set of 71 high resolution scanned images from the Apollo 15 mission.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. NASA Ames Research Center. Moffet Field, CA, 94035

    Michael J. Broxton & Taemin Kim

  2. Carnegie Mellon University,  

    Michael J. Broxton & Ara V. Nefian

  3. Stinger-Ghaffarian Technologies Inc.,  

    Zachary Moratto & Michael Lundy

  4. Stanford University,  

    Aleksandr V. Segal

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, 338-8570, Saitama, Japan

    Yoshinori Kuno

  6. Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, P.O. Box, 119613, Singapore

    Junxian Wang

  7. Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Jun-Xuan Wang

  8. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

    Junxian Wang

  9. Department of Informatics, Univ. of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, P.O. Box, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Renato Pajarola

  10. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94550, Livermore, CA, USA

    Peter Lindstrom

  11. University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    André Hinkenjann

  12. Humana Inc., 40202, Louisville, KY, USA

    Miguel L. Encarnação

  13. SCI Institute & School of Computing, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Cláudio T. Silva

  14. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Daniel Coming

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Broxton, M.J., Nefian, A.V., Moratto, Z., Kim, T., Lundy, M., Segal, A.V. (2009). 3D Lunar Terrain Reconstruction from Apollo Images. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10331-5_66

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