Ai4mars: A dataset for terrain-aware autonomous driving on mars

RM Swan, D Atha, HA Leopold… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Deep learning has quickly become a necessity for self-driving vehicles on Earth. In contrast,
the self-driving vehicles on Mars, including NASA's latest rover, Perseverance, which is …

Segmentation convolutional neural networks for automatic crater detection on mars

DM DeLatte, ST Crites, N Guttenberg… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning segmentation techniques show great promise for automating historically
tedious tasks for planetary scientists. One such task is crater counting, which is commonly …

Automated crater detection from co-registered optical images, elevation maps and slope maps using deep learning

A Tewari, V Verma, P Srivastava, V Jain… - Planetary and Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
Craters are topographic structures resulting from impactors striking the surface of planetary
bodies. This paper proposes a novel way of simultaneously utilizing optical images, digital …

Planet Four: Terrains–Discovery of araneiforms outside of the South Polar layered deposits

ME Schwamb, KM Aye, G Portyankina, CJ Hansen… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
We present the results of a systematic mapping of seasonally sculpted terrains on the South
Polar region of Mars with the Planet Four: Terrains (P4T) online citizen science project. P4T …

[HTML][HTML] Classification images for aerial images capture visual expertise for binocular disparity and a prior for lighting from above

E Skog, TS Meese, IMJ Sargent, A Ormerod… - Journal of …, 2024 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Using a novel approach to classification images (CIs), we investigated the visual expertise of
surveyors for luminance and binocular disparity cues simultaneously after screening for …

Mars sedimentary rock erosion rates constrained using crater counts, with applications to organic-matter preservation and to the global dust cycle

ES Kite, DP Mayer - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
Small-crater counts on Mars light-toned sedimentary rock are often inconsistent with any
isochron; these data are usually plotted then ignored. We show (using an 18-HiRISE …

Automated precision counting of very small craters at lunar landing sites

PH Cadogan - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Automated analysis of multiple LROC NAC images of the same area on the lunar surface,
with each image exposed under different illumination conditions, can result in confident …

Organism-substrate interactions and astrobiology: Potential, models and methods

A Baucon, CN de Carvalho, R Barbieri… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Organism-substrate interactions and their products–biogenic structures–are important
biosignatures on Earth. This study discusses the application of ichnology–the study of …

Planet Four: Probing springtime winds on Mars by mapping the southern polar CO2 jet deposits

KM Aye, ME Schwamb, G Portyankina, CJ Hansen… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
The springtime sublimation process of Mars' southern seasonal polar CO 2 ice cap features
dark fan-shaped deposits appearing on the top of the thawing ice sheet. The fan material …

The CosmoQuest Moon mappers community science project: The effect of incidence angle on the Lunar surface crater distribution

M Richardson, AAP Malagón, LA Lebofsky… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The CosmoQuest virtual community science platform facilitates the creation and
implementation of astronomical research projects performed by citizen scientists. One such …