Planetary science: Construction-site inspection

INDOT Construction Inspection Priorities

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to thank the members of the Study Advisory Committee (SAC) for their support and insightful feedback during the course of this project: The authors are also grateful of the following individuals for their help during the site visits and the data collection phases: The Joint Transportation Research Program serves as a vehicle for INDOT collaboration with hi...

Galactic planetary science

Planetary science beyond the boundaries of our Solar System is today in its infancy. Until a couple of decades ago, the detailed investigation of the planetary properties was restricted to objects orbiting inside the Kuiper Belt. Today, we cannot ignore that the number of known planets has increased by two orders of magnitude nor that these planets resemble anything but the objects present in o...

Lunar and Planetary Science

Construction Inspection through Spatial Database

This paper presents a novel pipeline for development of an efficient set of tools for extracting information from the video of a structure, captured by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to produce as-built documentation to aid inspection of large multi-storied building during construction. Our system uses the output from a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping system and a 3D CAD model of the s...

Planetary Science: A Lunar Perspective

Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie. This illustrates the state of planetary observation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Most of the succeeding advances in this field have occurred in the past decade. Preface The technical triumph of manned landings on the Moon and the return of samples from the lunar surface has provided scientists with a unique opportunity to advance our unders...