Perseverance Route Map Options

[Phil Stooke]

Another drive on sol 48, getting closer to the overlook.
Phil

[Phil Stooke]

Sol 49 - closer to the overlook, but not yet at the exact point denoted earlier. I don't suppose they really have to worry about being exactly on it. This location comes from the Hazcam projection I just posted in the Early Drives thread.

Phil

[kymani76]

Sol 52 update. Flight set up (almost?) complete.

[Phil Stooke]

And my map for sol 52.
Phil

[Andreas Plesch]

I had been away from my qgis setup. Here my update for sol 59, with new labels:

and the full map:

[Andreas Plesch]

I tried my best to register the high resolution helicopter overhead perspective, using about 40 control points:



The helicopter lens seems to be wide angle, fish-eye, with heavy distortion away from the center. So I used rubber sheeting ( thin plate spline ) to generate a map:



Since I did not use the tracks for referencing, the good match between the actual and simulated tacks shows that referencing of the rocks went well, and that the base map was also well registered.

[Andreas Plesch]

I registered the second oblique helicopter view along the flight zone, clipping the highly distorted, more distant view. Here is a composite map of the flight zone which Ingenuity traversed to today, probably for about 50m.

[Phil Stooke]

A short drive which I was not expecting on sol 65, pointed out by Paul in the other thread... Using Navcams I find a location hastily mapped here. I will fix up the base later.

Phil

[Andreas Plesch]

For what it's worth I registered the third helicopter perspective (to the west) to the map:



Here the larger flight zone:

[MarkL]

For what it's worth

I'd say its worth a lot Andreas. Thanks.

[Andreas Plesch]

Thanks. Since I used rocks and pavement patterns to register the images to the EDL basemap, it was an interesting exercise to get to know a large number of these features more closely in the vicinity of the airfield, and some larger ones in the distance. With real photogrammetry and knowledge of the lens and camera orientation one could do a better job but this is pretty good on a cm scale.

[Andreas Plesch]

Updated maps to sol66:



full map:

[Antdoghalo]

Just to think, we are mapping the first controlled flight paths on Mars!

[Phil Stooke]

I will have a map of flight paths eventually! For now an update after a short drive on sol 66, well behind Andreas in getting to this. I am reverting to a smaller scale map until I have a better sense of where we are going.
The offset between real positions and the JPL map continues - it's about 1 rover length. The maps on here are all corrected.
Phil

[Andreas Plesch]

A mosaic of the four Ingenuity images, registered to a base map:



I used Thomas' straightened version (thanks !) hoping that it would behave favorably in the distance but I had to crop anyways. (In fact, I think it made interpolating between control points perhaps less robust than the original would have.)