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| Title: | Results from Automated cloud and dust devil detection onboard the MER |
| Authors: | Chien, Steve
Castano, Rebecca
Bornstein, Benjamin
Fukunaga, Alex
Castano, Andres
Greeley, Ron
Whelley, Patrick
Biesiadecki, Jeffrey
Lemmon, Mark |
| Keywords: | Mars Rover
onboard science
dust devils |
| Issue Date: | 26-Feb-2008 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008. |
| Citation: | ISAIRAS: International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation for Space, Los Angeles, February 26, 2008. |
| Abstract: | We describe a new capability to automatically detect dust devils and clouds in imagery onboard rovers, enabling downlink of just the images with the targets or only portions of the images containing the targets. Previously, the MER rovers conducted campaigns to image dust devils and clouds by commanding a set of images be collected at fixed times and downloading the entire image set. By increasing the efficiency of the campaigns, more campaigns can be executed. Software for these new capabilities was developed, tested, integrated, uploaded, and operationally checked out on both rovers as part of the R9.2 software upgrade. In April 2007 on Sol 1147 a dust devil was automatically detected onboard the Spirit rover for the first time. We discuss the operational usage of the capability and present initial dust devil results showing how this preliminary application has demonstrated the feasibility and potential benefits of the approach. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/41748 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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