The Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK) team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama is developing tools that enable ultra-high resolution terrain mapping and navigation using mobile LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) algorithms in fully GPS-denied and unilluminated environments. The backpack mounted LiDAR instrument under development by our team demonstrates the potential of mobile SLAM LiDAR for use in challenging lunar and planetary surface environments as well as for lunar, planetary, and terrestrial cave exploration, study, and utilization.
Mobile LiDAR as A Tool for Terrestrial and Planetary Cave Exploration and Mapping
Arizona Regional Association (ARA) Winter Regional ; 2024 ; Phoenix, AZ , US
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Analog Environment , Terrestrial , Relevant Environment Testing , Lunar Skylight , Lunar , Instrumentation and Photography , Habitation , In-Situ Resource Utilization , Mapping , Martian Lava Tube , Impact Melt , Mars , Simultaneous Localization and Mapping , Skylight , Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration , Exploration Systems , Survey , Pyroduct , Speleology , LiDAR , Planetary Cave , Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack , Technology Utilization and Surface Transportation , Lava Tube , Radiation , Subsurface , Volcanology , Geology