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Lunar is the name I gave this application (mainly due to lack of imagination first thing in morning), which was initially created at the NASA Space Apps challenge to look at solving the Optimal Lunar Landing Sites Challenge
At the moment the application takes the given Image and decodes it from an image into a database (currently MySQL). The image is decoded from pixel RGB and compared to a palette and brute forced to match a value on the scale giving us a Lat/Lon and Altitude for each pixel (~16.58 Million).
The code will then take sections of the data out of the Database (size is controllable) and process these 'Tiles' to work out the roughness of the area before saving it's rating into a new table.
Finally the processed data is pulled from the database, and image created and then a KMZ for google moon is produced
Hopefully, with a little time, elbow grease and large amount of stress..
- Multiple Data sets (Images, raw Data)
- Produce pre-set images for certain areas (10km, 30km.. ect.)
- Geo-rectify the images
- Have a UI (And a easy to use one at that)
- Better analysis tools:
- Set landing profile
- Slope for landing profile
- Large rock scale
- Lots of amazing features..
These will all take a long time to really do but it's better to have a pipe dream than nothing. The aim is to get the current roughness system working and able to produce useful information and data
As you would expect from a 2 day hack event the application came out in a bit of a state but has since then been worked on quite a bit and with a bit of inside knowledge works quite well. The aim is to tidy up the code and get the system user friendly and working at much faster speeds
I've mentioned about improving the applications speed. Why? because at the moment it can be painfully slow. To improve this more intelligent code will be added to the image processing and research into a better database design/option will be done
Details for whats available in the downloads section
could be awhile..
Lunar_30km_demo.kmz
Accurate run from the first working beta. Will put the full image as a layer on google moon.