Endeavour Drivability Analysis Revisited, Any lessons from "ground truth"? Options

[Tom Tamlyn]

Three years ago RoverDriver posted a request that the forum's members pool their talents and experience with Martian images to analyze the drivability of the terrain between Victoria and Ithaca Endeavour. The result was an explosion of collaborative work that made compelling reading, even for members like me, who hardly understand the first thing about the techniques involved and have trouble manipulating, let alone understanding, the graphic work products.

About a month later JPL asked Paolo to discontinue his own involvement. Despite this disappointing (albeit understandable) development, the work continued for nearly another year.

I'd like to know if any of the participants has had the occasion to review his work in light of the photographic record of Opportunity's actual route (or of subsequent MRO imaging) and is willing to share his thoughts about how the analysis compares with what we have learned since the work was done.

TTT

[jamescanvin]

I haven't done any detailed analysis of how well my drivability maps turned out but it didn't seem to far off

I did plenty of eyeballing of HiRISE images coloured with derived ripple size at the time to know that was working well and we now have plenty of experience comparing ripples from the ground with HiRISE to know how those compare so I'm not surprised it worked fairly well.