Lunar topographic roughness maps from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data: Scale dependence and correlation with geologic features and units

Icarus

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-66

  Kreslavsky, Mikhail A ^a   Head, James W ^b   Neumann, Gregory A ^c   Rosenburg, Margaret A ^d   Aharonson, Oded ^e   Smith, David E ^f   Zuber, Maria T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data reduction techniques; Geological processes; Moon, surface; Regoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879350474     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.04.027     Document Type: Article

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