Talk:Tasks:Lunar Digital Elevation Data for the SPLAT! Program
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I wonder what's the state of LRO data in USGS/ISIS (or Selene (jp) ?)
tfx@mizar (isis) $ ls -l $(find data/lro/ -type f) -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 1485824 Apr 24 2008 data/lro/kernels/ck/PREDICT_LRO_Mission_Baseline_Ephemeris_v5p1.bc -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 440 Jul 22 2008 data/lro/kernels/ck/kernels.0001.db -rwxr-xr-x 1 tfx staff 330 Mar 17 13:59 data/lro/kernels/ck/makedb -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 117 May 20 2008 data/lro/kernels/fk/kernels.0001.db -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 25659 May 20 2008 data/lro/kernels/fk/lro_frames_2008123_v01.tf -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 39 Apr 24 2008 data/lro/kernels/iak/kernels.0001.db -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 443 Apr 25 2008 data/lro/kernels/ik/kernels.0001.db -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 11179 Apr 29 12:54 data/lro/kernels/ik/lro_instruments_v02.ti -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 11258 Apr 29 12:55 data/lro/kernels/ik/lro_instruments_v03.ti -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 5394 Apr 24 2008 data/lro/kernels/ik/lro_lroc0001.ti -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 10585 Apr 24 2008 data/lro/kernels/ik/lro_lroc0002.ti -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 3008 Apr 24 2008 data/lro/kernels/sclk/PREDICT_lro.tsc -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 118 Apr 24 2008 data/lro/kernels/sclk/kernels.0001.db -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 3866 May 20 2008 data/lro/kernels/sclk/lro_clkcor2009037_v00.tsc -r--r--r-- 1 tfx staff 92996608 Apr 24 2008 data/lro/kernels/spk/LRO_Mission_Baseline_Ephemeris_v5p1.bsp -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 367 Jul 22 2008 data/lro/kernels/spk/kernels.0001.db -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 94040064 May 20 2008 data/lro/kernels/spk/lro_mbe_v5p0.bsp -rwxr-xr-x 1 tfx staff 271 Mar 17 14:01 data/lro/kernels/spk/makedb -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 277483421 Apr 30 11:45 data/lro/testData/nacr00159565_unpacked.cub -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 1930 Apr 28 11:51 data/lro/translations/lronacArchive.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 2929 Apr 28 11:51 data/lro/translations/lronacInstrument.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 1616 Apr 27 12:12 data/lro/translations/lrowacArchive.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 1008 May 4 12:15 data/lro/translations/lrowacBandBin.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 2977 May 4 12:23 data/lro/translations/lrowacInstrument.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 2667 Dec 6 2007 data/lro/translations/mrflev1Archive.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 834 Dec 6 2007 data/lro/translations/mrflev1BandBin.trn -rw-rw-rw- 1 tfx staff 2542 Dec 8 2008 data/lro/translations/mrflev1Image.trn -rw-rw-rw- 1 tfx staff 5553 Dec 8 2008 data/lro/translations/mrflev1Instrument.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 7111 Dec 6 2007 data/lro/translations/mrflev2Archive.trn -rw-r--r-- 1 tfx staff 834 Dec 6 2007 data/lro/translations/mrflev2BandBin.trn
There's stuff there.. (dont have time to dig further).. -- Jdp 18:10, 24 August 2009 (EDT)
- Looking at that listing, just pulled.. there's nothing recent enough. It's probably just the baseline gis. -- Jdp 18:11, 24 August 2009 (EDT)
Lunar GIS for Google Earth
So I think the results from this task should be developed into a Portal:Survey article like Portal:Survey/LunarGIS/G.Earth. If I recall, there's a page somewhere in the USGS that describes this in some preliminary detail. -- Jdp 13:42, 25 August 2009 (EDT)
I think ultimately we are going to have difficulty getting the right kind of files for SPLAT! USGS has said that they will not be providing DEM (BIL) data in the future, preferring to support their ISIS program which uses a format called Cube.
Perhaps a Cube to SDF translator might be a solution, but I'm not sure anyone is writing one.
- Hey Daniel, this results looks very professional. Congratulations. Best, --Joshua 18:18, 27 August 2009 (EDT)
