Mariner 9 - Image processing and products.The purpose of this paper is to describe the system for the display, processing, and production of image data products created to support the Mariner 9 Television Experiment. Of necessity, the system was large in order to respond to the needs of a large team of scientists with a broad scope of experimental objectives. The desire to generate processed data products as rapidly as possible to take advantage of adaptive planning during the mission, coupled with the complexities introduced by the nature of the vidicon camera, greatly increased the scale of the ground image processing effort. This paper describes the systems that carried out the processes and delivered the products necessary for real-time and near-real-time analyses. References are made to the computer algorithms used for the different levels of decalibration and analysis.
Document ID
19720048316
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Levinthal, E. C. (Stanford University Stanford, Calif., United States)
Green, W. B.
Cutts, J. A.
Jahelka, E. D.
Johansen, R. A.
Sander, M. J.
Seidman, J. B.
Young, A. T. (California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena Calif., United States)
Soderblom, L. A. (U.S. Geological Survey Flagstaff, Ariz., United States)