Robust estimation method is proposed to combine multiple observations and create consistent, accurate, dense Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from lunar orbital imagery. The NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG) aims to produce higher-quality terrain reconstructions of the Moon from Apollo Metric Camera (AMC) data than is currently possible. In particular, IRG makes use of a stereo vision process, the Ames Stereo Pipeline (ASP), to automatically generate DEMs from consecutive AMC image pairs. However, the DEMs currently produced by the ASP often contain errors and inconsistencies due to image noise, shadows, etc. The proposed method addresses this problem by making use of multiple observations and by considering their goodness of fit to improve both the accuracy and robustness of the estimate. The stepwise regression method is applied to estimate the relaxed weight of each observation.


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    Title :

    Robust Mosaicking of Stereo Digital Elevation Models from the Ames Stereo Pipeline


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    Conference:

    International Symposium on Visual Computing ; 2009 ; Las Vegas, NV, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-10-29


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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