The use of lunar surface photography to achieve the photo grammetric transfer of available selenographic coordinates from future lunar landing sites to neighboring, photoidentifiable features was investigated. It can be implied from the procedures developed that overhead photography, were it available, could be utilized and would provide a material strengthening of the total solution. By the methodic selection of features and con firmation that they can in reality be identified from orbital photography, a modest selenodetic control system can be expanded into a net that could ultimately control all future, manned or unmanned, orbital photographic missions. (Author)
An Investigation to Improve Selenodetic Control Through Surface and Orbital Lunar Photography
1970
58 pages
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English