Summary and Abstracts of the Planetary Data Workshop, June 2012 By Lisa R. Gaddis, Trent Hare, and Ross Beyer Open-File Report 2014–1056 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior SALLY JEWELL, Secretary U.S. Geological Survey Suzette M. Kimball, Acting Director U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2014 For more information on the USGS—the Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment—visit http://www.usgs.gov or call 1–888–ASK–USGS For an overview of USGS information products, including maps, imagery, and publications, visit http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod To order this and other USGS information products, visit http://store.usgs.gov Suggested citation: Gaddis, L.R., Hare, T., and Beyer, R., 2014, Summary and abstracts of the Planetary Data Workshop, June 2012: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1056, 199 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141056. 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ISSN 2331-1258 (online) ii Contents Prefatory Note ................................................................................................................................................................ v Organizing Committee ................................................................................................................................................ v Sponsors ..................................................................................................................................................................... v Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................................................................... v Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Summary ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Outcomes and Observations for the Future ................................................................................................................... 4 Reference Cited ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 List of Abstracts ............................................................................................................................................................. 7 List of Abstracts with Oral or Poster Presentations (Presenter in Bold) ..................................................................... 7 List of Print-Only Abstracts (No Presentation) ...........................................................................................................11 List of Presentations or Posters Only (No Abstract) ..................................................................................................12 List of Demonstrations (On-Site Only).......................................................................................................................13 Abstracts .......................................................................................................................................................................15 Figures Figure 1. Approximate volume of data held by the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) in the period from 2001 projected to 2015 (Gaddis and others, 2012). ............................................................................................................... 1 Figure 2. Overview of the agenda for the Planetary Data Workshop. ........................................................................ 2 iii Conversion Factors Multiply By To obtain inch (in.) 2.54 centimeter (cm) inch (in.) 25.4 millimeter (mm) foot (ft) 0.3048 meter (m) mile (mi) 1.609 kilometer (km) mile, nautical (nmi) 1.852 kilometer (km) yard (yd) 0.9144 meter (m) iv Prefatory Note Planetary Data: A Workshop for Users and Software Developers A meeting for users and developers held at the DuBois Conference Center on the Campus of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona, June 25 to 29, 2012 Organizing Committee Lisa Gaddis U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona Trent Hare U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona Ross Beyer NASA Ames Research Center and SETI Institute, Mountain View, California Ed Guinness Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Justin Hagerty U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona Wes Patterson Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Sponsors NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) PDS Imaging Node PDS Geosciences Node NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility Network U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona Acknowledgments The meeting organizing committee would like to extend our thanks to these people for their support: Dr. Buck Sanford, Northern Arizona University (NAU) Department of Geology (facilities support); Angel Garlant, student, NAU Department of Physics and Astronomy (abstract compilation); William Knopf, Edmund Grayzeck, Tom Morgan (NASA headquarters, Planetary Data System); Dr. Michael S. Kelley (NASA headquarters, Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program). v Summary and Abstracts of the Planetary Data Workshop, June 2012 By Lisa R. Gaddis,1 Trent Hare,1 and Ross Beyer2 Introduction The recent boom in the volume of digital data returned by international planetary science missions continues to both delight and confound users of those data. In just the past decade, the Planetary Data System (PDS), NASA’s official archive of scientific results from U.S. planetary missions, has seen a nearly 50-fold increase in the amount of data and now serves nearly half a petabyte. In only a handful of years, this volume is expected to approach 1 petabyte (1,000 terabytes or 1 quadrillion bytes; fig. 1). Although data providers, archivists, users, and developers have done a creditable job of providing search functions, download capabilities, and analysis and visualization tools, the new wealth of data necessitates more frequent and extensive discussion among users and developers about their current capabilities and their needs for improved and new tools. Figure 1. Approximate volume of data held by the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS) in the period from 2001 projected to 2015 (Gaddis and others, 2012). A workshop to address these and other topics, “Planetary Data: A Workshop for Users and Planetary Software Developers,” was held June 25–29, 2012, at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona. A goal of the workshop was to present a summary of currently available tools, along 1 U.S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona. 2 NASA Ames Research Center and SETI Institute, Mountain View, California. 1 with hands-on training and how-to guides, for acquiring, processing and working with a variety of digital planetary data. The meeting emphasized presentations by data users and mission providers during days 1 and 2, and developers had the floor on days 4 and 5 using an “unconference” format for day 5 (fig. 2). Day 3 featured keynote talks by Laurence Soderblom (U.S. Geological Survey, USGS) and Dan Crichton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL) followed by a panel discussion, and then research and technical discussions about tools and capabilities under recent or current development. Software and tool demonstrations were held in break-out sessions in parallel with the oral session. Nearly 150 data users and developers from across the globe attended, and 22 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and non-NASA data providers and missions were represented. Presentations (some in video format) and tutorials are posted on the meeting site (http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/groups/Planetary-Data-Workshop). Figure 2. Overview of the agenda for the Planetary Data Workshop. 2 Summary To facilitate planetary research, a wide variety of techniques are used across the planetary science and related communities to solve issues related to data access, calibration, cartographic processing, cross-correlation, and the creation of derived, typically more usable, scientific products. Such products can help scientists to portray characteristics such as surface or feature morphology, topography, and unit distribution and composition but tend to be even more valuable by bringing the observations into a common spatial and visualization system. Topics for the Planetary Data Workshop ranged from discussions of digital in-situ and orbital data integration, data processing methods, software development, data interoperability, visualization and analysis of multilayer data,