The Open Lunar Science Working Group is a tentative working group active in the Geoscience domain within the OSGeo Open Geoscience Committee specifically created to contribute to all the Google Lunar XPRIZE teams by providing FOSS4G solutions and data.

Of interest

WG Members

Meir Michanie
Yann Chemin
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Objectives (Draft)

Provide tools and data for moon exploration.

Data:

Rasters
DEM
Vector data
Projections & datum

Tools:

API
Libraries
Plugins
Extensions
Demos

Case studies

ISIS-GRASS - Apollo 12: https://peerj.com/preprints/2124/

Activities Plan

Research on materials and tools: (Rajan)

Moon images and datasets available along with their licenses.

PDS: https://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/Missions/
PIGWAD: https://webgis.wr.usgs.gov

Tools.

ISIS: https://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov
GRASS Planetary: https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Planetary_mapping

Published papers.

Frigeri, A, Hare, T, Neteler, M., Coradini, A, Federico, C, Orosei, R. (2011). A research environment for digital planetary data processing and mapping using ISIS and GRASS GIS. Planetary and Space Science, 59(11-12), pp.1265-1272

collect available data
provide open dataset
call for a challenge

Provide tutorial based on goals and audience:

Measure distances between points.
Create images mosaics.
Routing for moon lander: shortest path, economical,...
Geo-reference - case: someone with a telescope takes a pic, locate it in the moon map.
Terrain visualization.
Moon geomorphology
VR simulation
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Secondary activities

Create logo. First draft available in Wiki as png, original svg available at OSGEOMoonEditionLogo.svg

Lost and Found

link	Category	Description
FOSS4G2008_Demos	Internal existing material	Demos and supporting material, possible candidates to assist on the task.

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Open Lunar Science Working Group

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