In this work, we are developing a lunar terrain database to enable fast rendering of sun illumination and earth visibility for a proposed coverage analysis tool. This development will advance lunar mission design and formulation for current and future communications architectures, and will aid in lunar surface mission planning and communications/navigation operations. Our effort can be described in three steps: (1) we parallelize a brute force algorithm, which computes elevation masks from laser altimetry data acquired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA); (2) we investigate parallel I/O methods to store terrain mask information from step (1) into a parallel file system; and (3) we finally deliver data to the terrain coverage analysis tool.


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    Title :

    Lunar Terrain Coverage Analysis Data Delivery Workflow


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2021-11-15


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English



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