Large Area High-Resolution 3D Mapping of the Von Kármán Crater: Landing Site for the Chang’E-4 Lander and Yutu-2 Rover

• Published in: Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 15; no. 10; p. 2643
• Main Authors: Tao, Yu, Muller, Jan-Peter, Conway, Susan J, Siting Xiong, Walter, Sebastian H. G, Bin Liu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: 3D mapping; Accuracy; Archives & records; Artificial intelligence; Cameras; Deep learning; Digital imaging; digital terrain model; Earth Sciences; High resolution; Laboratories; Landing sites; Laser altimeters; Lasers; Lunar craters; lunar landing site; Lunar Orbiter; Lunar spacecraft; Machine learning; Measurement; Moon; Photogrammetry; Photography; Planetology; Remote sensing; Sciences of the Universe; Storage facilities; Terrain models; Three dimensional models; topography; United Kingdom; United States > US; deep learning; lunar landing site; NAC; digital terrain model; MADNet; Moon; topography; LRO; Chang'E-4; Chang'E-2; 3D mapping

We demonstrate the creation of a large area of high-resolution (260 × 209 km2 at 1 m/pixel) DTM mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) images over the Chang’E-4 landing site at Von Kármán crater using an in-house deep learning-based 3D modelling system d...