Multi-mission image processing and archiving at DLR

Abstract

The Institute of Planetary Research (IPR) at DLR has a long tradition in image processing and archiving. The major starting point in the early 1990’s was the development of the the image processing system for the Mars96 misison. Unfortunately, this mission failed shortly after launch. In parallel IPR developed software to analyze the imaging data from the Galileo and Clementine mission.In the late 1990’s IPR started to participate in the Cassini imaging experiment. IPR has been in charge for the processing of the camera data from the MarsExpress mission since 2004 and also for the imaging data from the VenusExpress mission since 2006.This work has been supplemented since 2007 by the software development for the DAWN data processing. The main focus of the IPR software development has been the systematic processing (telemetry processing and radiometric calibration), map projection and mosaicking, photogrammetric and cartographic processing. IPR also contributes to the archiving products from a variety of missions. These archiving products are released to the scientific community via the planteray archives at ESA and NASA (PSA and PDS).