Publication year: 2010
Source: Icarus, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 17 March 2010
Christopher G., Hughes , Michael S., Ramsey
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) has provided the highest spatial resolution (100 meter/pixel) thermal infrared (TIR) data of the surface of Mars to date. These data have enabled the discovery of many small-scale compositional units and helped to better constrain surface processes operating at these scales. However, with higher resolution visible (VIS) instruments revealing smaller-scale surficial differences, there exists a need to detect and map compositional variability using TIR data at scales below100 meters. Because it is unlikely there will be a higher resolution TIR instrument sent to Mars in the near future, creative image processing techniques commonly classified…
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