An ENVI/IDL Color and Multispectral Processing Toolkit for TGO/CaSSIS and MRO/HiRISE

Kurzfassung

Mars spacecraft missions, particularly the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), continue to return terabytes of high resolution imagery of Mars. Color-infrared images have a significant potential to enhance scientific study of the geologic history of Mars but can be difficult to ingest into common software interfaces for further correction, processing visualization and analysis. The goal of our ongoing work is to develop a publicly available toolset for the ENVI/IDL Classic interface (currently available from NV5 Geospatial) to facilitate processing and analysis of Visible/Near-infrared (VNIR) multispectral images from the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) instrument on TGO; a tangential goal is to produce a parallel toolset in ENVI/IDL for processing color images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) in a similar fashion. The ultimate goal of these tools is to facilitate co-analysis of datasets in a commonly used interface (ENVI/IDL).