The GIS data model of the Visible and Infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) onboard NASA/Dawn
Abstract
The spectrometer onboard Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres (Russell et al., Earth Moon Planet (2007) 101:65-91) is a hyperspectral spectrometer with imaging capability which returns data useful for the determination of the mineral composition of surface materials in their geologic context. The VIR Spectrometer—covering the range from the near UV (0.25 μm) to the near IR (5.0 μm) and having moderate to high spectral resolution and imaging capabilities—is the appropriate instrument for the determination of Vesta's and Ceres' global and local properties (De Sanctis et al., SSR 2011). VIR combines two data channels in one compact instrument. The visible channel covers 0.25-1.05 μm and the infrared channel covers 1-5.0 μm. VIR is inherited from the VIRTIS mapping spectrometer (Coradini et al. in Planet. Space Sci. 46:1291-1304, 1998; Reininger et al. in Proc. SPIE 2819:66-77, 1996) on board the ESA Rosetta mission.Since the beginning of the scientific campaign, VIR calibrated data have been converted into a Geographic Information System (GIS) compatible format. Here we present the GIS data model we developed for VIR, which presents some unique peculiarities due to the specific NASA/Dawn mission design. The model has been developed starting from an object oriented modeling. This object oriented design gives the flexibility which is necessary to face, time to time, the unexpected aspects of remote sensing over planetary surfaces unobserved before with this kind of instruments.
- Publication:
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AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #48
- Pub Date:
- October 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016DPS....4832104F