THE ‘MOON MAPPING’ PROJECT TO PROMOTE COOPERATION BETWEEN STUDENTS OF ITALY AND CHINA

The research project ‘Moon Mapping’ has been established in 2014 between the Italian and Chinese Governments to promote cooperation and exchange between undergraduate students from both countries. The operational phase of the project started in early 2015, and will end in 2017, for a total length of...

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Published inInternational archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences. Vol. XLI-B6; pp. 71 - 78
Main Authors Scaioni, M., Giommi, P., Brunetti, M. T., Carli, C., Cerroni, P., Cremonese, G., Forlani, G., Gamba, P., Lavagna, M., Melis, M. T., Massironi, M., Ori, G., Salese, F., Zinzi, A., Xie, G., Kang, Z., Shi, R., Sun, Y., Wu, Y.
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Gottingen Copernicus GmbH 01.06.2016
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Subjects
Chinese space program
Colleges & universities
Cooperation
Exploration
Geomorphology
Lunar maps
Lunar surface
Mapping
Moon
Preprocessing
Remote sensing
Research facilities
Solar wind
Space exploration
Space missions
Students
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Summary:The research project ‘Moon Mapping’ has been established in 2014 between the Italian and Chinese Governments to promote cooperation and exchange between undergraduate students from both countries. The operational phase of the project started in early 2015, and will end in 2017, for a total length of three years. The main aim is to train new scholars to be able to work on different kinds of remotely-sensed data collected over the Moon surface by the Chinese space missions Chang’E-1/2. The project coordination has been assigned to the Italian Space Agency for the Italian side and to the Center of Space Exploration, China Ministry of Education, for the Chinese side. Several Chinese universities and Italian national research institutes and universities have been officially involved in this project. Six main research topics have been identified: (1) map of the solar wind ion; (2) geomorphological map of the Moon; (3) data preprocessing of Chang’E-1 mission; (4) map of element distribution; (5) establishment of 3D digital visualization system; and (6) compilation and publication of a tutorial on joint lunar mapping.
ISSN:2194-9034
1682-1750
2194-9034
DOI:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B6-71-2016