Side-looking spacecraft radar imagery has thus far been produced only from an orbit around the moon. This was a part of the Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment (ALSE) of the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. This paper reports results of a radargrammetric evaluation of overlapping Apollo 17 synthetic-aperture radar images (wavelength 2 m). The potential to map from single images and to reconstruct three-dimensional stereoscopic models is studied. The relative height accuracy achieved is about + or - 100 m and is thus competitive with that obtained with the vidicon camera presently used for planetary exploration.


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    Title :

    Mapping of lunar surface from side-looking orbital radar images


    Contributors:
    Leberl, F. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1976-07-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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