FOSS4G in the Solar System

Alessandro Frigeri

Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Rome, Italy

FOSS4G, Firenze, 22-28 August 2022

Operating System: GNU/Linux

Flight software: F' (https://github.com/nasa/fprime)

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Geo-spatial

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“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” Socrates (470 – 399 B.C.)

from Ronca, 1965

Exploration always needs maps

The Planetary Data system (PDS) was established by NASA in 1989 to deal with concerns that the data being returned by scientific satellites was in danger of being lost.

Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers

https://github.com/USGS-Astrogeology/ISIS3


  • 2006 - added PDS3 / ISIS2 read support
  • 2007 – ISIS 3/4 read support added
  • 2014 – VICAR read support added
  • 2017 – ”Geo”FITS and ISIS 3/4 writer
  • 2017, 2019 – PDS4 (reader/writer)
  • 2019 – VICAR re-write (reader/writer)

Thanks to Trent Hare, Sebastian Walter, Chiara Marmo

starting from version 8.2 (2021):

EPSG:4326

IAU:49900

IAU:30100

Planetary Scientist' FOSS4G Desktop

Software/Service License Gen./Spec.
ISIS CC0 Spec.
NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline Apache 2.0 Spec.
Craterstats BSD 3 Spec.
QGIS GPL Gen.
GRASS GIS GPL Gen.
WMS@USGS (200 layers) - Spec.
STAC@USGS - Spec.

Community efforts

   


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TM8 - Joint OSGeo / OpenPlanetary Townhall on Open Science
Thu, 11 Apr, 2019 - 19:00–20:00 - EGU congress in Vienna, Austria

Collaborative mapping efforts

 
Williams et al, 2020 and Sefton Nash et al.,

MMGIS (Multi-Mission Geographic Information System)

https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/MMGIS

FOSS4G in Space Exploration:

The Future

Program: ARTEMIS
Mission: ARTEMIS 1
Launch: August 29th 2022

Credit: ESA

Alessandro Frigeri alessandro.frigeri@inaf.it

See Trent Hare's "Helping to Land a Mars Rover using FOSS4G Tools" tomorrow at 14:15 Room Onice