Rover Localization and Landing-Site Mapping Technology for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-90

  Li, Rongxing ^a   Di, Kaichang ^a   Matthies, Larry H ^b,c   Arvidson, Raymond E ^d   Folkner, William M ^b,c   Archinal, Brent A ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mail Stop 125 209 ^*

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PLANETS; SATELLITES; TOPOLOGY;

ODOMETRY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

REMOTE SENSING;

MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; POSITIONING SYSTEM; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 0346056726     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.70.1.77     Document Type: Review

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