Monday, December 24, 2018

Astronomy/Planetary GIS Applications


Refrence

Asteroids – Gazing the sky and tracking asteroids with NASA’s bolide events map. (NASA’s Bolide Events)



34. Mapping Mars with MOLA – Start mapping a whole entire new planet using NASA’s MOLA. (USGS Planetary GIS Web Server – PIGWAD)
35.
Mars Terrain – Going for a spin on the rugged terrain of Mars using data captured by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS). (Mars Terrain)
36.
Mars Rover Landing – Examining how to landing the Mars Rover safely with operations criteria including latitude for solar power, soil softness, slopes using laser altimetry, dustiness, rockiness and a landing footprint.
37.
Water Flow on Mars – Hillshading the Mars Digital Elevation Model to augment legibility and understand where rivers may have flowed and oceans flourished. (Mars Water Flow)
38.
Satellite Orbits – Gazing the sky for satellites and even programming satellites for image acquisition. (Satellite Map)
39.
Magnetic Fields – Investigating magnetic field lines in 3D with international geomagnetic field maps.
40.
Astrogeology – Delivering planetary mapping to the international science community in public domain – from planetary topology to lunar geology. (Astrogeology Science Centre)
41.
UFO Sightings – Speculating UFO sightings with proportional symbols with over 90,000 reports dating back to 1905. m
42.
Light Pollution – Recognizing the artificial light introduced by humans in the night sky and how it interferes with the observation of stars. (NOAA’s VIIRS data) / Light Pollution Map)
43.
Mars in Google Earth – Searching for Martian landmarks with Google Earth’s “Live from Mars” layer.
44.
International Space Station – Tracking the real-time location of the International Space Station (ISS) in ArcGIS Online Data.
45.
Venus – Mapping the altimetry, shaded relief and geology of Venus. (Venus Map)
46.
Magnetic Declination – Positioning with the magnetic declination, a varying angle from a true geographic north using NOAA National Geophysical Data Center 2015 data and the Magnetic Declination QGIS Plugin.
47.
Gravity Anomaly – Understanding our Earth’s gravity by mapping the unusual concentrations of mass in a different regions on Earth. (The Geoid)
48.
NASA Visible Earth – Cataloging images and animations of our home planet in the electromagnetic spectrum from various sensors. (NASA Visible Earth)
49.
Tycho – Mapping Tycho, the youngest moon crater.
50.
Milky Way – Surveying the inner part of the Milky Way Galaxy with GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Extraordinaire)

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