PLANETARY MAPPING AND DATA PROCESSING

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

GE260

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PLANETARY SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Geology

Language:

English

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PONDRELLI MONICA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of the basic concepts and tools of geology. To have attended the lectures of 'Planetary Geology'

Objectives

Learn the tool to find, understand and process the data necessary to realize a planetary geological map.
Learn the technical as well as the scientific tools to realize a planetary geological map.

Contents

Browsing planetary data archive;
data processing for GIS ingestion;
concepts for planetary geological mapping;
realization of a geological map.

Extended Syllabus

PDS Geosciences Node Orbital Data Explorer (ODE): footprint and data search.
Other tools.
Accompanying Material.
Data processing: ISIS (Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers).
Installation and basic commands; examples of data processing with different missions.
Cartography. Nomenclature. Coordinate systems and projections.
DEM production: NASA AMES Stereo Pipeline.
Installation and basic commands; data selection for stereo processing; examples of data processing with different missions.
Hyperspectral data.
GIS Integration.
Planetary cartography protocols.
Peculiarity of Planetary Geological Mapping: different resolution; geological mapping vs geomorphological mapping. Scale of work.
Realization of a geological map.
Accessory Information: Geological sections; Stratigraphic schemes; Crater counting.

Recommended Bibliography

Planetary Geology, 2018
Editors: Rossi, Angelo Pio, van Gasselt, Stephan (Eds.)
Springer

Teaching Methods

Classroom-taught lecture for the basic principles. Practical exercises with the realization of a cartographic project from the data selection phase up to the geological map preparation.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Realization of a geological mapping project:
- Choice of the study area
- Realization of the geographical and geological contexts
- Data processing
- Geological Map preparation
- Geological section preparation
- Stratigraphic schemes preparation

Presentation of the results including methods and explanation of the geology of the study area: mapped units description, stratigraphic relations, evolution of the depositional environments through time.

Contacts/More Information

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Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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