Accurate photometric reconstruction of the Lunar surface is important in the context of upcoming NASA robotic missions to the Moon and in giving a more accurate understanding of the Lunar soil composition. This paper describes a novel approach for joint estimation of Lunar albedo, camera exposure time, and photometric parameters that utilizes an accurate Lunar-Lambertian reflectance model and previously derived Lunar topography of the area visualized during the Apollo missions. The method introduced here is used in creating the largest Lunar albedo map (16% of the Lunar surface) at the resolution of 10 meters/pixel.


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    Title :

    Photometric Lunar Surface Reconstruction


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) ; 2013 ; Melbourne, Australia, Australia


    Publication date :

    2013-09-15


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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