Information Technology

Planetary Data Systems (PDS) Imaging Node Atlas II NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

The Planetary Image Atlas (PIA) is a 2001 Mars Odyssey, Cassini, Galileo, both basic and advanced search capa - Rich Internet Application (RIA) that LCROSS, Lunar Reconnaissance Or - bilities, providing a product search tool serves planetary imaging data to the sci - biter, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Ex - to interrogate the collection of plane - ence community and the general public. press, Magellan, Mars Global Surveyor, tary images. This tool lets the end user PIA also utilizes the USGS Unified Plan - Mars Pathfinder, Mars Reconnaissance query information about each image, etary Coordinate system (UPC) and the Orbiter, MESSENGER, Phoe nix, Viking and ignores the data that the user has on-Mars map server. Lander, Viking Orbiter, and Voyager. no interest in. Users can reduce the The Atlas was designed to provide the The Atlas utilizes the UPC to translate number of images to look at by defin - ability to search and filter through mission-specific coordinate systems into ing an area of interest with latitude and greater than 8 million planetary image a unified coordinate system, allowing longitude ranges. files. This software is a three-tier Web the end user to query across missions of This work was done by Alice Stanboli and application that contains a search en - similar targets. If desired, the end user James M. McAuley of Caltech for NASA’s Jet gine backend (MySQL, JAVA), Web serv - can also use a mission-specific view of Propulsion Laboratory. For more information, ice interface (SOAP) between server the Atlas. The mission-specific views rely contact iaoffice@jpl.nasa.gov. and client, and a GWT Google Maps on the same code base. This software is available for commercial li - API client front end. This application al - This application is a major improve - censing. Please contact Dan Broderick at lows for the search, retrieval, and down - ment over the initial version of the [email protected]. Refer to load of planetary images and associated Planetary Image Atlas. It is a multi-mis - NPO-47820. meta-data from the following missions: sion search engine. This tool includes

Automatic Calibration of an Airborne Imaging System to an Inertial Navigation Unit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California This software automatically calibrates image data only. The assumption is that Caltech for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. a camera or an imaging array to an iner - the camera fixates on an area while the For more information, contact iaoffice@ tial navigation system (INS) that is aircraft flies on orbit. The system then, jpl.nasa.gov. rigidly mounted to the array or imager. fully automatically, solves for the camera This software is available for commercial li - In effect, it recovers the coordinate orientation in the INS frame. No man - censing. Please contact Dan Broderick at frame transformation between the refer - ual intervention or ground tie point [email protected]. Refer to ence frame of the imager and the refer - data is required. NPO-48755. ence frame of the INS. This work was done by Adnan I. Ansar, This innovation can automatically de - Daniel S. Clouse, Michael C. McHenry, Dim - rive the camera-to-INS alignment using itri V. Zarzhitsky, and Curtis W. Padgett of

Translating MAPGEN to ASPEN for MER Faithful translation is achieved from mixed-domain representations into the ASPEN Modeling Language. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

This software translates MAPGEN distinct planning languages (both de - The MAPGEN planning system is an (Europa and APGEN) domains to clarative and procedural) to a third (de - example of a hybrid procedural/declar - ASPEN, and the resulting domain can clarative) planning language in order to ative system where the advantages of be used to perform planning for the solve the problem of faithful translation each are leveraged to produce an effec - Mars Exploration Rover (MER). In from mixed-domain representations tive planner/scheduler for MER tacti - other words, this is a conversion of two into the ASPEN Modeling Language. cal planning. The adaptation of the

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