Processing and Analysis Plan of SELENE Terrain Camera Data

Abstract

The Terrain Camera(TC) is a mission instrument on SELENE, that takes stereo-images of the surface of the Moon with 10m resolution. The data of TC will be depacketed, decompressed, radiometrically calibrated, geometrically corrected, and so on, in the SELENE Operation and Analysis Center(SOAC) in the Institute and Astronautical Science (ISAS)/Japan Space and Aeronautical Exploration Agency (JAXA). From the TC stereo pairs, digital terrain model (DTM) scene/maps will also be produced in SOAC. The products will be delivered via SELENE Level 2 data base. The systems that proceed the TC data have been programmed and installed into SOAC, already. We have checked the format of each product from the systems, procedure times, and so on, through various tests including interface tests to confirm the possibility of fast generation of products by the systems. In our nominal ground system operation plan, the systems for radiometrically calibration and geometrically correction and DTM production will be started their operation after a data volume (such as of a half of month) of the depacketed and decompressed (L2A) data are piled up. The detailed procedure parameters are will be investigated for both view points of time and accuracy.