3D Lunar Terrain Reconstruction from Apollo Images

Authors:
Michael J. Broxton;Ara V. Nefian;Zachary Moratto;Taemin Kim;Michael Lundy;Aleksandr V. Segal
Affiliations:
NASA Ames Research Center. Moffet Field 94035 and Carnegie Mellon University,;Carnegie Mellon University,;Stinger-Ghaffarian Technologies Inc.,;NASA Ames Research Center. Moffet Field 94035;Stinger-Ghaffarian Technologies Inc.,;Stanford University,
Venue:
ISVC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing: Part I
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Generating accurate three dimensional planetary models is becoming increasingly important as NASA plans manned missions to return to the Moon in the next decade. This paper describes a 3D surface reconstruction system called the Ames Stereo Pipeline that is designed to produce such models automatically by processing orbital stereo imagery. We discuss two important core aspects of this system: (1) refinement of satellite station positions and pose estimates through least squares bundle adjustment; and (2) a stochastic plane fitting algorithm that generalizes the Lucas-Kanade method for optimal matching between stereo pair images.. These techniques allow us to automatically produce seamless, highly accurate digital elevation models from multiple stereo image pairs while significantly reducing the influence of image noise. Our technique is demonstrated on a set of 71 high resolution scanned images from the Apollo 15 mission.