How to make cylindrical maps from NASA imagery?

How to make cylindrical maps from NASA imagery?

Yadgar View Member Profile	Apr 16 2011, 10:43 AM Post #1
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 6-April 11 From: Cologne, Germany Member No.: 5951	Hi(gh)! I'm a raytracing (POV-Ray!) as well as an astronomy/space flight aficionado since many years and I have always admired those huge cylindrical maps of planets and moons stitched together from images gained by space probes. So I wonder how they are made - how to get exact information about each original image's viewing geometry and illumination phase angle, and what software to use to distort them appropriately to match the cylindrical map projection... can anyone around here give me some clues - or is it somewhat like a "trade secret"? Currently, the "big thing" in making such maps is Mercury, next to Vesta, which will start to be mapped by the DAWN probe within the coming few months... I really would like to be among those who build their own planetary maps for modeling the Solar System! See you in Khyberspace - www.khyberspace.de Yadgar

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Yadgar How to make cylindrical maps from NASA imagery? Apr 16 2011, 10:43 AM

JohnVV there are a few different ways Some NOT free and ... Apr 17 2011, 05:12 AM

djellison QUOTE (JohnVV @ Apr 16 2011, 09:12 PM) My... Apr 17 2011, 05:59 AM

Yadgar Hi(gh)! QUOTE (JohnVV @ Apr 17 2011, 07... Apr 17 2011, 09:57 AM

Phil Stooke You don't need illumination data for this. Th... Apr 18 2011, 08:14 PM

Yadgar Hi(gh)! QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Apr 18 2011... Apr 18 2011, 09:51 PM

djellison You're going to need to do a lot of research y... Apr 18 2011, 09:54 PM

machi And you probably need good (I mean best ) image c... Apr 18 2011, 10:01 PM

JohnVV while you are on MS windows xp img2png is a good p... Apr 20 2011, 02:24 AM

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