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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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Ross Beyer
post Jun 22 2011, 09:34 PM
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As I had mentioned a long, long time ago, we (the Ames Planetary Content team) were working on constructing new HiRISE/CTX overlays in the Google Earth client for the Opportunity route. We're far enough along that I want to have you guys take them for a spin so that I can get your feedback.

The attached KML file has NetworkLinks that point to our servers at Ames.

As far as geo-position goes, we decided to leave Victoria Crater where it is, and adjust the surrounding images. At some point in the future (I've been told "after the mission is over" as a time frame), there will be a giant geolocation solution by members of the MER team, at which point we'd move everything to be consistent with that, but its far enough in the future that I'm not gonna worry about it right now.

Also, the HiRISE image that covers the Endeavor rim isn't just any HiRISE image, but an ortho-image made from a HiRISE terrain model, and if things work out the way that I want them to, by the time this basemap makes it into the client (end of summer? fall at the latest, I hope), the HiRISE terrain will be in there, too.
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post Aug 12 2011, 09:52 PM
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QUOTE (Ross Beyer @ Jun 22 2011, 02:34 PM) *
As I had mentioned a long, long time ago, we (the Ames Planetary Content team) were working on constructing new HiRISE/CTX overlays in the Google Earth client for the Opportunity route. We're far enough along that I want to have you guys take them for a spin so that I can get your feedback.

The attached KML file has NetworkLinks that point to our servers at Ames.

As far as geo-position goes, we decided to leave Victoria Crater where it is, and adjust the surrounding images. At some point in the future (I've been told "after the mission is over" as a time frame), there will be a giant geolocation solution by members of the MER team, at which point we'd move everything to be consistent with that, but its far enough in the future that I'm not gonna worry about it right now.

Also, the HiRISE image that covers the Endeavor rim isn't just any HiRISE image, but an ortho-image made from a HiRISE terrain model, and if things work out the way that I want them to, by the time this basemap makes it into the client (end of summer? fall at the latest, I hope), the HiRISE terrain will be in there, too.


Hi Ross:

I just completed a new basemap of CTX, MOC and HiRISE images in Arcmap that I'll be using for my localization work on Opportunity (I call this "HiThere!"). This map covers all of our traverse from Eagle Crater through Cape York, as well as all of Endeavour and Iazu Craters (since we can see so much of the interior of Endeavour, and Iazu is on our horizon). I first georeferenced the CTX low emission angle images to the HRSC and MOLA DEMs, then tied the HiRISE images to them (and each other, where they overlap). For Endeavour, there is still an annoying gap in the HiRISE coverage just east of center, so I used a couple of MOC images (3m/pixel) to fill that gap. Next step will be to correct the shading from one image to the next so the seams don't detract from the morphology. I've done this for the CTX background mosaic already, and I'm in the process of adjusting the HiRISE images. Next step will be to tile up and get the basemap into our planning software. But once that's done and the route is on it, exporting the path to applications like Google Mars ought to be straightforward. Much sooner than "after the mission is over", I'm hoping. smile.gif

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post Aug 13 2011, 02:32 AM
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QUOTE (tim53 @ Aug 12 2011, 02:52 PM) *
(I call this "HiThere!")



Apart from that, I applaud the rest of your post and hope to see the product before the mission is over!


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QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Aug 12 2011, 07:32 PM) *


Apart from that, I applaud the rest of your post and hope to see the product before the mission is over!


This map is now completed. Stay tuned, as Trent Hare will be posting links to it on the USGS website.

While I consider the map "completed", I reserve the right to continue to update it as better/more images are acquired and I can georeference them to the base MOLA and HRSC topography maps. But I need to get cranking on the Gale basemap for localization and planning during Ops!

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post Nov 17 2011, 10:08 PM
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Hi all!

Sorry this took so long to finish (at least Opportunity is still going!), but Trent Hare of the USGS Flagstaff, has posted my new basemap on a couple websites for quick viewing. These sites are temporary, so I don't know how long they'll be up. There's also a downloadable kmz file for placing in Google Mars. I tried it, and it works, but a colleague here couldn't get it to display. There are some issues - like too hard a stretch - that will be dealt with in future postings.

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You can share this also - but warn them it might go away as I can't keep this site live forever .

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But I slapped together an on-line tiled version of your mosaic. Think of "zoomify" but the measure distance tool works geodesically. I think I cached beyond the image (hence the large black area on the right).
http://webgis2.wr.usgs.gov/MER_Meridianni/

Here is the cache for GE too (Does it even work for you ???):
http://webgis2.wr.usgs.gov/ArcGIS/rest/ser...ml/mapImage.kmz

most simple site (only zooming):
http://webgis2.wr.usgs.gov/ArcGIS/rest/ser...pServer?f=jsapi

Rest interface with some funky information listed:
http://webgis2.wr.usgs.gov/ArcGIS/rest/ser...ianni/MapServer


There's also an FTP site for downloading a JP2 version of the file: ftp://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/pub/pigpen/ma...se/MER_mosaics/

And the associated readme text file: ftp://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/pub/pigpen/ma...25cm_README.txt .

I've only given this a quick look, so I apologize if there are issues that I've missed. The map itself needs a couple of corrections that I'll get back to after I return from the Curiosity launch week after next. I've got it into our planning software here for localization and traverse planning. Most annoying (to me) are some residual shading differences that I need to work on some more. The worst of these got that way when Fred Calef and I decided not to include a pair of MOC images over a gap in the HiRISE coverage, as they weren't a significant improvement in resolution over the CTX background mosaic and didn't have the dynamic range - I'd adjusted the shading of the HiRISE image to match the MOC, so it is darker than the CTX background.

In addition to making these kinds of corrections, I plan to make revisions as more data is acquired and released by HiRISE and as time allows.

I hope some here find the file useful. Enjoy!

-Tim.
P.S. Sample screen grab of mosaic with Opportunity path from Eagle to Sol 2777:
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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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