March 15, 2010 PDS release Options

[peter59]

Finally, the data are here:
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/data/LRO-L-LROC-2....0/LROLRC_0001/
Unfortunately, the server is running terribly slow.

[Rick Sternbach]

Erwan,

Thanks for that news about the LOLA data. However, I'm a right-brained artist working on a Mac with an app like MacDEM, which was able to work with the MGS MOLA .img files *very* nicely, given the numbers of rows and columns. I suspect that I won't be able to use anything like ArcGIS. Any ideas on how I might be able to get 16-bit grayscale maps out of the files you cited? In the meantime, I'll forward the URL to my rapid prototype folks; perhaps they'll know what to do for the models. I'd really love to be able to put the grayscale maps into Terragen.

Rick

EDIT: Holy cow, I just downloaded one of the "smaller" 17MB JPEG2000 files, and it's already in 16-bit B&W. I see files in there that are 3+ GB. Yeeeoooowww. Many, many, many thanks! - Rick

[zeBeamer]

EDIT: Holy cow, I just downloaded one of the "smaller" 17MB JPEG2000 files, and it's already in 16-bit B&W. I see files in there that are 3+ GB. Yeeeoooowww. Many, many, many thanks!

Rick,
glad the JP2s are working for you (they are all unsigned INT16). But the IMGs are there as well, just in case!

[Rick Sternbach]

Rick,
glad the JP2s are working for you (they are all unsigned INT16). But the IMGs are there as well, just in case!

I just kicked out a couple of Terragen pix of Copernicus; the LDEM64 in JP2000 seems to have some striping, but I've seen that in MOLA files as well and I suspect that will get cleared up in time. I'll try running the .img through MacDEM and see what happens. Exciting times; I'm already looking into an 8" to 12" physical sphere with full relief, as well as some selected regions for rapid prototyping. - Rick