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Google Mars HiRISE base images for Opportunity
elakdawalla
post Sep 28 2010, 09:23 PM
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Because it has become a forum FAQ, I've created this sticky thread containing information on where to obtain new base images for Opportunity's traverse for Google Mars, and for discussion on creating new ones. I will continue to add links to new base image layers to this first post as they become available.

wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif New users: Download this 4-MB kml file and open it in Google Earth wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif
wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif Then go to the last post in the Opportunity Route Map thread for the latest traverse map wheel.gif wheel.gif wheel.gif
You need to download the new KML file each time in order to follow Opportunity's peregrinations.

Google Mars comes with a color base image mosaic created from HRSC imagery. In addition, there is an inset full-resolution HiRISE image covering the area from the landing site at Eagle crater, through Victoria, up to the point between sol 2040 and 2041 (just west of Mackinac) where Opportunity drove off the map.

Unfortunately, this Victoria crater HiRISE layer included within Google Mars is not perfectly registered to the HRSC base map. As far as is known, there is nothing to be done about that. Both John Cody's image layers and Eduardo Tesheiner's traverse maps are aligned with the inset HiRISE layer included with Google Mars, NOT to the HRSC base map.

In June 2009 SFJCody posted a reduced-resolution mosaic of HiRISE tiles that cover the entire future traverse area including Endeavour's rim. I have made some small modifications to that map and have hosted it in a single file here (17 MB). Download the file, run Google Earth, select the Mars view, and File>Open the KMZ to view it.

In September 2009 SFJCody posted another HiRISE base image, this one at full resolution, covering the Western Route and reaching not quite all the way to Santa Maria. Here is a link to the kml file (4 MB). Here is a link to a zipped version if you'd prefer to have it locally (256 MB) and I also wrote a blog entry about it.

During the discussion below, in late 2010, I created a small tile that covers just the immediate area around Santa Maria. Here is a link to the kml file covering that region.

In February 2011 Eduardo Tesheiner provided another set of base images covering the area from Santa Maria to Endeavour's rim. Here is a link to the kml file. If you would like to work from a local copy, you can download this 75 MB zip file and unzip it to a folder on your drive, then open the file PSP_010341_1775_RED.kml within it.

All three base images can be loaded at once using this kml file (the same one that is linked to at the very top of this post).


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post Sep 28 2010, 09:33 PM
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OK, now that I've posted the existing maps, here is a call for help with future ones. At her current pace, Opportunity will run off of SFJCody's high-resolution base map in about two months. He can't do the next map, and I tried but couldn't figure out how to make any region file generators work within the amount of time I allotted myself to spend on the project, so someone else needs to try to figure out how to do this!

The first step is to get the images. I can provide those, thanks to James Canvin, who processed the small piece of PSP_005423_1780 that covers the area around Santa Maria plus the entirety of PSP_010341_1775 which covers the rest of the way to Endeavour plus the entire western rim into 8192x8192 JPEG format subimages, each of which overlaps by 10% with the next. They can be downloaded here:

Santa Maria (PSP_005423_1780, 33 MB)
Endeavour 1 of 3 (PSP_010341_1775, 183 MB)
Endeavour 2 of 3 (PSP_010341_1775, 199 MB)
Endeavour 3 of 3 (PSP_010341_1775, 148 MB)

Then, SFJCody had the following advice to me on how to get these into Google Mars:
QUOTE (SFJCody)
It's not complicated, but it is fiddly, time-consuming and sometimes annoying. James Canvin split the map-projected JP2 into 10% overlapping 8192x8192 chunks which I could overlay in Google Mars manually. I did this the standard way; temporarily making the overlaid image partially transparent in order to see the existing features beneath. Once each section was done I adjusted the brightness & contrast in photoshop to match the existing neighbouring HIRISE frame. There are brightness/contrast variations even within the frames so indivdual adjustment of sections was necessary to avoid any visible seams. Pieces that are on the edge of the HIRISE frame are set to GIF or PNG so that the black border can be made a transparent colour. Others are JPEG. As I went through this process of 'laying down tiles' I would switch off the earliest tiles, away from the 'work area' leaving only those immediately adjacent to the section I was about to add. That way I would have a reference for the alignment of the next section without overloading Google Mars by keeping too many 8192X8192 images switched on simultaneously.

Once all the full sized tiles had been created and georeferenced the next step was to turn the tile data (images and location references) into region files. I tried several methods and I'm not sure which is best: here are some of the references I used:

http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentat...#workingregions

http://superoverlay.geoblogspot.com/

http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/10/super_overlay_t.html

http://www.maptiler.org/

Sometimes the region files created by software turned out to be buggy (they would switch on and off bits of the image so that at some elevation ranges it looked like a chessboard. These ones I tried to create manually using the method outlined in the first reference.
Note that, for the base map to be useful to Eduardo and all of us who follow his maps of Opportunity's progress, the images should NOT be registered to the color HRSC base map included within Google Mars, but instead to the low resolution HiRISE base map linked to in the first post in this thread.


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post Sep 29 2010, 07:30 PM
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I just tried "stitching" in the first image. GE's image overlay tool is very clunky, very difficult to make a perfect match with the previous detailed overlay that we've been enjoying. I wish I had more time to monkey with this. Any reason why they have to be applied in these broken up tiles? Why can't the original large file be overlayed in one fell sweep? Probably an obvious answer somewhere...
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post Sep 29 2010, 09:07 PM
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You answered yourself. smile.gif

QUOTE (walfy @ Sep 29 2010, 09:30 PM) *
... the original large file ...


It's several hundreds of MB.

And back to the main topic everyone, here's a good reference on how to work with "region files" in GE. It's the key point to have an extended and high resolution map coverage on GE. It's not too complicated to implement but the process must be automated somehow since we are talking about dozens or perhaps a few hundreds of regions.

Working with Regions
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- elakdawalla   Google Mars HiRISE base images for Opportunity   Sep 28 2010, 09:23 PM
- - elakdawalla   OK, now that I've posted the existing maps, he...   Sep 28 2010, 09:33 PM
|- - Tesheiner   I'm wondering if it is really necessary to ove...   Sep 29 2010, 05:58 AM
||- - SFJCody   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Sep 29 2010, 03:58 PM)...   Sep 29 2010, 06:48 AM
||- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Sep 29 2010, 08:48 AM) m...   Sep 29 2010, 07:59 AM
|- - walfy   I just tried "stitching" in the first im...   Sep 29 2010, 07:30 PM
||- - Tesheiner   You answered yourself. QUOTE (walfy @ Sep 2...   Sep 29 2010, 09:07 PM
|- - alan   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 28 2010, 04:33 P...   Sep 30 2010, 01:33 AM
- - eoincampbell   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 28 2010, 02:23 P...   Sep 29 2010, 02:51 AM
- - BrianL   Why can't Google do this work? Has anyone aske...   Sep 29 2010, 12:00 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (BrianL @ Sep 29 2010, 04:00 AM) Wh...   Sep 29 2010, 02:11 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (BrianL @ Sep 29 2010, 04:00 AM) Wh...   Sep 30 2010, 09:54 PM
|- - SFJCody   Lots of activity in this thread. I guess my map is...   Sep 30 2010, 10:28 PM
|- - walfy   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 30 2010, 01:54 P...   Oct 1 2010, 12:37 AM
- - Stu   They're too busy quietly taking over the world...   Sep 29 2010, 12:51 PM
- - BrianL   Because it seems like an obvious benefit to all us...   Sep 29 2010, 04:58 PM
- - fredk   I'm not familiar witht the images in question,...   Sep 29 2010, 09:24 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (fredk @ Sep 29 2010, 11:24 PM) Cou...   Sep 29 2010, 10:01 PM
- - elakdawalla   The region file generators that make images for Go...   Sep 29 2010, 10:12 PM
|- - walfy   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Sep 29 2010, 02:12 P...   Sep 30 2010, 09:02 AM
- - jamescanvin   I still have them on my disk, in fact they were st...   Sep 30 2010, 07:37 AM
- - Tesheiner   Wow, downloaded and tested MapTiler and I think th...   Sep 30 2010, 12:43 PM
|- - walfy   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Sep 30 2010, 04:43 AM)...   Oct 3 2010, 02:07 AM
- - Tesheiner   Bingo! Thanks Walfy for finding the righ...   Sep 30 2010, 04:12 PM
|- - walfy   Nice progress! I had a feeling you would prop...   Sep 30 2010, 05:12 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (walfy @ Sep 30 2010, 07:12 PM) Nic...   Sep 30 2010, 05:23 PM
|- - walfy   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ Sep 30 2010, 09:23 AM)...   Sep 30 2010, 06:49 PM
- - fredk   Presumably these are grayscale images originally, ...   Sep 30 2010, 07:18 PM
- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (walfy @ Sep 30 2010, 08:49 PM) It...   Sep 30 2010, 08:04 PM
- - fredk   My appologies if I'm missing something here...   Sep 30 2010, 09:04 PM
- - Tesheiner   Oh, now I see our misunderstanding. You are talkin...   Sep 30 2010, 09:35 PM
- - elakdawalla   OK, we are almost there, but not quite. I downloa...   Oct 1 2010, 04:39 AM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 1 2010, 06:39 AM...   Oct 1 2010, 09:36 AM
- - walfy   It worked for me, too, but took awhile to download...   Oct 1 2010, 04:51 PM
- - elakdawalla   Holy cow, suddenly, this morning, it worked! ...   Oct 1 2010, 05:08 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 1 2010, 07:08 PM...   Oct 3 2010, 10:39 PM
- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Oct 1 2010, 12:28 AM) Lo...   Oct 1 2010, 05:45 PM
- - elakdawalla   Good point, we should test. I do think think that...   Oct 1 2010, 06:04 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 1 2010, 08:04 PM...   Oct 1 2010, 06:13 PM
- - elakdawalla   My point is that if the convention is for it to be...   Oct 1 2010, 06:34 PM
- - elakdawalla   Well, Tesheiner, you were right. I ran MapTiler o...   Oct 1 2010, 10:50 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 2 2010, 12:50 AM...   Oct 2 2010, 08:52 AM
- - Tesheiner   Strange... I was expecting a gap of maybe a pix...   Oct 1 2010, 11:37 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Am I missing something here? I downloaded those H...   Oct 2 2010, 01:42 AM
- - elakdawalla   Are you talking about the reduced-resolution versi...   Oct 2 2010, 04:00 AM
- - Tesheiner   You can select the way GE displays lat/long coordi...   Oct 3 2010, 06:02 AM
- - elakdawalla   Wow. Great work, Eduardo. The next step that nee...   Oct 3 2010, 10:57 PM
- - jamescanvin   I may (or may not) have a chance to set my scripts...   Oct 4 2010, 07:50 AM
- - Tesheiner   All tests I did with non-overlapping tiles resulte...   Oct 4 2010, 08:22 AM
- - elakdawalla   Sorry for the long break -- DPS happened, then som...   Oct 23 2010, 10:06 PM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 23 2010, 02:06 P...   Nov 2 2010, 04:00 PM
- - Tesheiner   I thought it might be time to resurrect this topic...   Feb 6 2011, 07:54 PM
- - elakdawalla   I'll be glad to host it. I can do it tomorrow...   Feb 6 2011, 10:24 PM
- - Robert S   Awesome!!! Can't wait for it to be...   Feb 7 2011, 10:27 AM
- - Tesheiner   Thanks, Emily, for the support and for hosting thi...   Feb 8 2011, 07:10 AM
- - brellis   Thanks E.T. and Emily! p.s. - happy birthday...   Feb 8 2011, 08:01 AM
- - fredk   This is fantastic! Thanks Tesheiner and Emily...   Feb 8 2011, 03:19 PM
- - Stu   Thanks, both, VERY much. I can't overestimate ...   Feb 8 2011, 05:23 PM
|- - SFJCody   Fantastic! Much better than my earlier unfinis...   Feb 8 2011, 10:50 PM
- - elakdawalla   Okay folks, I've now edited the first post in ...   Feb 8 2011, 11:11 PM
- - brellis   I've found my religion, and it is Google Mars,...   Feb 8 2011, 11:34 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 9 2011, 12:34 AM) I...   Feb 9 2011, 11:30 AM
|- - MoreInput   Also from me very much thanks for the maps: Let...   Feb 24 2011, 09:14 PM
- - elakdawalla   Don't forget to thank SFJCody -- he did the li...   Feb 8 2011, 11:34 PM
- - eoincampbell   Thank you one and all for mapping,hosting and post...   Feb 9 2011, 12:31 AM
- - Robert S   I am so pleased right now that words can't des...   Feb 9 2011, 09:02 AM
- - elakdawalla   There's a lovely new color view of the northwe...   Apr 14 2011, 04:06 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   RE: Google Mars HiRISE base images for Opportunity   Apr 14 2011, 04:18 AM
- - eoincampbell   Thanks for posting that beautifully colored view.....   Apr 14 2011, 04:51 AM
- - Astro0   This is a start on the colour coverage with the la...   Apr 14 2011, 08:02 AM
- - Stu   Tweaked the new HiRISE image of Cape York to make ...   Apr 14 2011, 05:14 PM
|- - eoincampbell   Lovely view and I like those possible routes, Stu....   Apr 15 2011, 05:23 AM
- - Explorer1   Oh wow! Once we get on that color patch, that...   Apr 14 2011, 05:36 PM
- - KrisK   Lately I've been working on HiRISE GE extensio...   May 19 2011, 10:30 PM
|- - Tesheiner   That sounds great! But, as you said, it's ...   May 20 2011, 06:08 AM
|- - KrisK   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 20 2011, 08:08 AM)...   May 21 2011, 03:59 PM
- - Tesheiner   Mmm, more or less. I'm providing some of the d...   May 21 2011, 09:39 PM
|- - KrisK   QUOTE (Tesheiner @ May 21 2011, 11:39 PM)...   May 22 2011, 04:55 PM
|- - Zeke4ther   Great work! Well done!   May 23 2011, 04:50 AM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (KrisK @ May 22 2011, 06:55 PM) Btw...   May 23 2011, 09:11 AM
- - Ross Beyer   As I had mentioned a long, long time ago, we (the ...   Jun 22 2011, 09:34 PM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (Ross Beyer @ Jun 22 2011, 02:34 PM...   Aug 12 2011, 09:52 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (tim53 @ Aug 12 2011, 02:52 PM) (I ...   Aug 13 2011, 02:32 AM
|- - tim53   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Aug 12 2011, 07:32 P...   Oct 31 2011, 08:35 PM
|- - Zeke4ther   cool!!   Oct 31 2011, 10:47 PM
|- - tim53   Hi all! Sorry this took so long to finish (...   Nov 17 2011, 10:08 PM
|- - Nirgal   QUOTE (tim53 @ Nov 17 2011, 11:08 PM) Ima...   Nov 17 2011, 11:11 PM
- - hendric   Works very well from here.   Jun 22 2011, 10:08 PM
- - Tesheiner   From here too. It runs smoothly through the differ...   Jun 22 2011, 10:58 PM
- - brellis   It's always like Christmas morning surfing thr...   Jun 23 2011, 12:48 AM
- - CosmicRocker   QUOTE (Ross Beyer @ Jun 22 2011, 03:34 PM...   Jun 23 2011, 04:51 AM
- - Ant103   That's amazing ! Excellent work !   Jun 23 2011, 07:43 AM
- - Robert S   Fantastic job!!!!   Jul 17 2011, 03:11 PM
- - Phil Stooke   These really are fantastic pictures. I can see I...   Mar 25 2012, 09:11 PM
- - Tesheiner   Some people already mentioned that the background ...   Aug 12 2012, 10:23 PM
- - Floyd   Congratulations Tesheiner. Thanks for all your gr...   Aug 12 2012, 10:36 PM
|- - SFJCody   Awesome stuff! Thanks hugely for all your tire...   Aug 13 2012, 03:05 AM
- - CosmicRocker   Excellent, Eduardo!   Aug 13 2012, 04:10 AM
- - Stu   That's fantastic Eduardo! After all these ...   Aug 13 2012, 06:33 AM
- - climber   Congratulations Eduard Tesheiner...   Aug 13 2012, 07:37 AM
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