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@misc{McVann:2024:10.5194/epsc2024-622,
author = {McVann, P and Ghail, R and Mason, P and Manning, C},
doi = {10.5194/epsc2024-622},
title = {The Creation of a Radiometric Correction Module in Python for Chandrayaan-2},
type = {Other},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-622},
year = {2024}
}
TY - GEN
AB - <jats:p>Introduction: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a powerful tool for the remote sensing of planetary surfaces. It allows for high resolution imaging of the surface at different wavelength ranges (or ‘bands’), each providing different information. The European Space Agency has an open-source toolbox named SNAP for the exploration of Earth Observation data. However, there is no equivalent open-source toolbox for non-terrestrial datasets. This project aims to begin the development of an open-source toolbox created for planetary missions, with an initial focus on the development of radiometric correction module for SAR data acquisitions from the ISRO’s Lunar, Chandrayaan-2 mission.Chandrayaan-2: Launched by the ISRO in 2019, Chandrayaan-2 is the first fully-polarimetric SAR to study the Moon. This allows for the gathering of detailed information on the properties of surficial elements such as the structure or the orientation. The Dual Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (DFSAR) onboard the satellite will image in both S- and L-Band frequencies, the latter allowing for shallow ~3m penetration into the Lunar surface [1]. This mission's main scientific goals are to create high-resolution maps of the polar regions, estimate the distribution and thickness of the regolith and to make a quantitative estimation of water-ice in the polar regions of the Moon.The Lunar South Pole: A heavily cratered region of great interest due to the suspected presence of water-ice in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs.) It is also the location of candidate landing regions for NASA’s Artemis III mission. Evidence for the presence of subsurface water-ice has been provisionally interpreted from anomalies in UV and VIR albedo, and high Circular Polarisation Ratio (CPR) in remotely sensed data [2]. The initial data return of Chandrayaan-2 has indicated that craters in both PSRs and non-PSRs have anomalous CPR values in both the S
AU - McVann,P
AU - Ghail,R
AU - Mason,P
AU - Manning,C
DO - 10.5194/epsc2024-622
PY - 2024///
TI - The Creation of a Radiometric Correction Module in Python for Chandrayaan-2
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-622
ER -
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