Overview of the Mars Pathfinder mission and assessment of landing site predictions.

Assessment of Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Predictions

SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC CALIBRAnON OF IMAGER FOR MARS PATHFINDER DATASETS

This document describes the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) calibration targets and outlines a procedure for their use in first-order spectrophotometric image calibration. The Mars Pathfinder mission and landing site are discussed, as are previous observations of Mars. Bidirectional reflectance theory relevant to target design and usage as well as planetary surface measurement will be develope...

Automatic Mars Landing Site Mapping Using Surface-based Images

This paper presents techniques for automatic mapping of Mars landing sites using surface-based images, i.e., those taken by Mars landers and/or rovers. An innovative method for automatic tie point selection is presented that includes five steps: interest point extraction, interest point matching, parallax verification, graph consistency verification and final tie point selection with gridding. ...

Constrained Bundle Adjustment of Panoramic Stereo Images for Mars Landing Site Mapping

In Mars exploration missions, high-precision landing-site topographic information is crucial for engineering operations and the achievement of scientific goals. Detailed topographic information of landing sites is usually provided by ground panoramic images acquired by lander or rover stereo cameras. This technology was employed for the 1997 Mars Pathfinder (MPF) mission and will also be used i...

High Precision Landing Site Mapping and Rover Localization by Integrated Bundle Adjustment of Mpf Surface Images

High-precision topographic information from all available data is crucial to many landing site geological and engineering applications. At the same time, precise navigation and localization of the rover as it traverses the Martian surface is important both for its safety and for the achievement of its engineering and scientific objectives. In this paper, we investigate a new approach to high-pr...