Analyzing Pathfinder data using virtual reality and superresolved imaging

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 104, Issue E4, 1999, Pages 8889-8906

  Stoker, Carol R ^a   Zbinden, Eric ^a   Blackmon, Theodore T ^a   Kanefsky, Bob ^a   Hagen, Joel ^a   Neveu, Charles ^a   Rasmussen, Daryl ^a   Schwehr, Kurt ^a   Sims, Michael ^a   Henning, P ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; MARS; MARS PATHFINDER; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0033602592     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JE900019     Document Type: Article

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