Automated crater detection, a new tool for Mars cartography and chronology

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1205-1217

  Jung, Rack Kim ^a   Muller, Jan Peter ^a   Van Gasselt, Stephan ^b   Morley, Jeremy G ^a   Neukum, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MAPPING; PLANETS; SENSORS;

CRATERS; MARS CARTOGRAPHY; QUALITY FACTOR; TARGET SENSORS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CARTOGRAPHY; CRATER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 31344431852     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/pers.71.10.1205     Document Type: Review

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