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Ancillary data requested by FACETS in June 5, 2001 letter to NASA's Dr. Weiler

Submitted by Grant F. Nelson

1 VOLUME_ID ?
2 FILE_SPECIFICATION_NAME ?
3 PRODUCT_ID ?
4 IMAGE_TIME ?
5 INSTRUMENT_NAME ?
6 FILTER_NAME ?
7 LINE_SAMPLES ?
8 LINES ?
9 CROSSTRACK_SUMMING ?
10 DOWNTRACK_SUMMING ?
11 SCALED_PIXEL_WIDTH ?
12 PIXEL_ASPECT_RATIO ?
13 EMISSION_ANGLE ?
14 INCIDENCE_ANGLE ?
15 PHASE_ANGLE ?
16 CENTER_LONGITUDE ?
17 CENTER_LATITUDE ?
18 UPPER_LEFT_LONGITUDE ?
19 UPPER_LEFT_LATITUDE ?
20 UPPER_RIGHT_LONGITUDE ?
21 UPPER_RIGHT_LATITUDE ?
22 LOWER_LEFT_LONGITUDE ?
23 LOWER_LEFT_LATITUDE ?
24 LOWER_RIGHT_LONGITUDE ?
25 LOWER_RIGHT_LATITUDE ?
26 MISSION_PHASE_NAME ?
27 TARGET_NAME ?
28 SPACECRAFT_CLOCK_START_COUNT ?
29 FOCAL_PLANE_TEMPERATURE ?
30 LINE_EXPOSURE_DURATION ?
31 GAIN_MODE_ID ?
32 OFFSET_MODE_ID ?
33 EDIT_MODE_ID ?
34 ENCODING_TYPE ?
35 SCALED_IMAGE_WIDTH ?
36 SCALED_IMAGE_HEIGHT ?
37 SPACECRAFT_ALTITUDE ?
38 TARGET_CENTER_DISTANCE ?
39 SLANT_DISTANCE ?
40 USAGE_NOTE ?
41 NORTH_AZIMUTH ?
42 SUB_SOLAR_AZIMUTH ?
43 SUB_SOLAR_LONGITUDE ?
44 SUB_SOLAR_LATITUDE ?
45 SUB_SPACECRAFT_LONGITUDE ?
46 SUB_SPACECRAFT_LATITUDE ?
47 SOLAR_DISTANCE ?
48 SOLAR_LONGITUDE ?
49 LOCAL_TIME ?
50 IMAGE_SKEW_ANGLE ?
51 RATIONALE_DESC ?
52 DATA_QUALITY_DESC ?
53 ORBIT_NUMBER ?

 






 

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example data similar to that which should be available for E03-00824

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" CYDONIA",
"M19008/M1900850.IMQ",
"M19/00850 ",
"2000-09-13T07:54:02.34",
"MOC-NA","N/A ",
512,
12160,
4,
4,
6.19,
0.94,
0.23,
32.21,
32.05,
10.15,
41.88,
10.01,
41.28,
10.08,
41.27,
10.21,
42.47,
10.29,
42.47,
"MAPPING ",
"MARS ",
"653298871:2 ",
245.0,
0.4821,
"6A",
"30 ",
0,
"MOC-PRED-X-5 "
3.17,
71.32,
413.98,
3801.26,
413.98,
"N",
93.89,
325.85,
36.45,
18.67,
10.18,
41.88,
247338728.2,
48.78,
13.74,
93.4,
"CYDONIA IMAGE ",
"ERRORS",
6784

 

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Key to interpreting these values.

NAME = VOLUME_ID
COLUMN_NUMBER = 1
DESCRIPTION = "volume id"
NAME = FILE_SPECIFICATION_NAME
COLUMN_NUMBER = 2
DESCRIPTION = "file name"

NAME = PRODUCT_ID
COLUMN_NUMBER = 3
DESCRIPTION = "product id"

NAME = IMAGE_TIME
COLUMN_NUMBER = 4
DESCRIPTION = "SCET time at start of image"

NAME = INSTRUMENT_NAME
COLUMN_NUMBER = 5
DESCRIPTION = "instrument name"

NAME = FILTER_NAME
COLUMN_NUMBER = 6
DESCRIPTION = "filter name (RED or BLUE, N/A for NA)"

NAME = LINE_SAMPLES
COLUMN_NUMBER = 7
DESCRIPTION = "image width"

NAME = LINES
COLUMN_NUMBER = 8
DESCRIPTION = "image height"

NAME = CROSSTRACK_SUMMING
COLUMN_NUMBER = 9
DESCRIPTION = "crosstrack summing. For global images the
crosstrack summing is variable across the detector. Please
refer to the mocsis.txt appendix F for a full description."

NAME = DOWNTRACK_SUMMING
COLUMN_NUMBER = 10
DESCRIPTION = "downtrack summing"

NAME = SCALED_PIXEL_WIDTH
COLUMN_NUMBER = 11
DESCRIPTION = "image resolution in meters/pixel at center of image"

NAME = PIXEL_ASPECT_RATIO
COLUMN_NUMBER = 12
DESCRIPTION = "pixel aspect ratio (pixel height/pixel width)
at center of image. The image's center pixel is projected on the
ground and its linear extents are ratioed, so any effects of
emission angle and line time are modelled. To recover an image
with 'square' pixels, the image should be resampled to a height
of aspect_ratio * input height."

NAME = EMISSION_ANGLE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 13
DESCRIPTION = "emission angle at center of image"

NAME = INCIDENCE_ANGLE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 14
DESCRIPTION = "incidence angle at center of image"

NAME = PHASE_ANGLE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 15
DESCRIPTION = "phase angle at center of image"

NAME = CENTER_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 16
DESCRIPTION = "center longitude"

NAME = CENTER_LATITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 17
DESCRIPTION = "center areographic latitude"

NAME = UPPER_LEFT_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 18
DESCRIPTION = "upper left longitude"

NAME = UPPER_LEFT_LATITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 19
DESCRIPTION = "upper left areographic latitude"

NAME = UPPER_RIGHT_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 20
DESCRIPTION = "upper right longitude"

NAME = UPPER_RIGHT_LATITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 21
DESCRIPTION = "upper right areographic latitude"

NAME = LOWER_LEFT_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 22
DESCRIPTION = "lower left longitude"

NAME = LOWER_LEFT_LATITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 23
DESCRIPTION = "lower left areographic latitude"

NAME = LOWER_RIGHT_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 24
DESCRIPTION = "lower right longitude"

NAME = LOWER_RIGHT_LATITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 25
DESCRIPTION = "lower right areographic latitude"

NAME = MISSION_PHASE_NAME
COLUMN_NUMBER = 26
DESCRIPTION = "mission phase name"

NAME = TARGET_NAME
COLUMN_NUMBER = 27
DESCRIPTION = "target name (e.g., MARS, PHOBOS, STAR, SPACE)"

NAME = SPACECRAFT_CLOCK_START_COUNT
COLUMN_NUMBER = 28
DESCRIPTION = "spacecraft clock value at start of image"

NAME = FOCAL_PLANE_TEMPERATURE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 29
DESCRIPTION = "focal plane temp in Kelvins"

NAME = LINE_EXPOSURE_DURATION
COLUMN_NUMBER = 30
DESCRIPTION = "line integration time in milliseconds"

NAME = GAIN_MODE_ID
COLUMN_NUMBER = 31
DESCRIPTION = "gain mode (see documentation)"

NAME = OFFSET_MODE_ID
COLUMN_NUMBER = 32
DESCRIPTION = "offset mode (see documentation)"

NAME = EDIT_MODE_ID
COLUMN_NUMBER = 33
DESCRIPTION = "first pixel stored from detector, zero-based"

NAME = ENCODING_TYPE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 34
DESCRIPTION = "A description of the compression applied to this image,
of the form string-parms, where <string> is taken from the set
{MOC-NONE,MOC-PRED,MOC-DCT,MOC-WHT} and <parms> are additional parameters
describing the algorithm-specific compression parameters."

NAME = SCALED_IMAGE_WIDTH
COLUMN_NUMBER = 35
DESCRIPTION = "image width from left to right image edge in km"

NAME = SCALED_IMAGE_HEIGHT
COLUMN_NUMBER = 36
DESCRIPTION = "image height from first line to last line in km"

NAME = SPACECRAFT_ALTITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 37
DESCRIPTION = "distance from s/c to closest point on surface in km"

NAME = TARGET_CENTER_DISTANCE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 38
DESCRIPTION = "distance from s/c to target body center in km"

NAME = SLANT_DISTANCE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 39
DESCRIPTION = "range from s/c to intersection of view vector with
target body in km"

NAME = USAGE_NOTE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 40
DESCRIPTION = "Because of the MOC's line-scan nature, depending on the
orientation and sense of rotation of the spacecraft and the optical
inversion properties of the camera system involved, MOC images can
either be normal or flipped left-for-right (independent of whether the
image is north up or south up.) This flag will be 'F' if the image
should be flipped left-to-right, and 'N' if it is already in normal
form."

NAME = NORTH_AZIMUTH
COLUMN_NUMBER = 41
DESCRIPTION = "The angle in degrees clockwise from the reference axis
of the image (a line from the center to the right edge of the image)
to the direction to the north pole of the target body. If the
USAGE_NOTE described previously is 'F', the image should be flipped
prior to applying this angle."

NAME = SUB_SOLAR_AZIMUTH
COLUMN_NUMBER = 42
DESCRIPTION = "The angle in degrees clockwise from the reference axis
of the image (a line from the center to the right edge of the image)
to the direction to the subsolar point on the target body. If the
USAGE_NOTE described previously is 'F', the image should be flipped
prior to applying this angle."

NAME = SUB_SOLAR_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 43
DESCRIPTION = "west longitude of subsolar point in degrees"

NAME = SUB_SOLAR_LATITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 44
DESCRIPTION = "planetographic latitude of subsolar point in degrees"

NAME = SUB_SPACECRAFT_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 45
DESCRIPTION = "west longitude of subspacecraft point in degrees"

NAME = SUB_SPACECRAFT_LATITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 46
DESCRIPTION = "planetographic latitude of subspacecraft point in degrees"

NAME = SOLAR_DISTANCE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 47
DESCRIPTION = "distance from the center of the image on the target body
to the center of the sun in km"

NAME = SOLAR_LONGITUDE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 48
DESCRIPTION = "solar longitude ('L sub s') at time of image in degrees
from martian vernal equinox, as computed by the method in 'Accurate
analytic representations of solar time and seasons on Mars with
applications to the Pathfinder/Surveyor missions', Michael Allison,
Geophysical Reseach Letters 24, 16, pp 1967-1970 (August 15, 1997)"

NAME = LOCAL_TIME
COLUMN_NUMBER = 49
DESCRIPTION = "Local True Solar Time in decimal hours from midnight at
the center of the image, as computed by the method in 'Accurate
analytic representations of solar time and seasons on Mars with
applications to the Pathfinder/Surveyor missions', Michael Allison,
Geophysical Reseach Letters 24, 16, pp 1967-1970 (August 15, 1997).
An 'hour' in this context is an angular measure of 15 degrees
of solar motion."

NAME = IMAGE_SKEW_ANGLE
COLUMN_NUMBER = 50
DESCRIPTION =
"The image skew angle is the absolute value, in degrees, of the angle
between the left edge (a line between the lower left and upper left
corners) and the bottom edge (a line between the lower left and lower
right corners) of the image, where the edges are projected on the
target body. For images whose footprints are exactly rectangular,
this angle will be 90 degrees. Departures from 90 degrees indicate a
non-rectangular image footprint, caused by slews of the spacecraft
during imaging outside the orbit plane or off-nadir pointing, or
both."

NAME = RATIONALE_DESC
COLUMN_NUMBER = 51
DESCRIPTION = "A text description of the scientific purpose for the
acquisition of this image. For routine mapping operations, this will
most likely be the goal of the image as targeted (which may not be met
if the image missed its target significantly, the atmosphere was
cloudy, gain parameters were set inappropriately, etc.)"

NAME = DATA_QUALITY_DESC
COLUMN_NUMBER = 52
DESCRIPTION = "'OK' if all fragments of the image are
received without detected checksum or sequence errors, and 'ERRORS'
otherwise."

NAME = ORBIT_NUMBER
COLUMN_NUMBER = 53
DESCRIPTION = "orbit number as defined by the MGS Project"


 
 

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