Welcome to pdsimage’s documentation!

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission has gathered some fantastic data of the lunar surface and, thanks to NASA, all are available for free on the internet.

However, using them can be cryptic without a bit of experience. This library aims to facilitate the extraction of knowledge from two set of data gathered by two experiments on board of LRO:

• The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) experiment which collected high resolution topographic data of the lunar surface
• The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) experiment which collected images of the lunar surface. In particular, we focus on Wide Angle Images taken from the Wide Angle Camera (WAC)

Highlighted features

Unlike previous python PDS library, this module allows to easily extract part of a PDS image without loading the whole thing into memory (Sizes can be up to Gigabytes). Great for looking at geological unit on the Moon. Include some extension to study impact crater and lunar domes specifically.

Contents:

• Get the module up and running
  • Mac OS X
  • Unix
• Rapid overview
  • Import the modules
  • Loading part of an image
  • Looking at impact crater ?
  • Topographic profiles
• Extracting data on a specific region
  • BinaryTable
  • WacMap
  • LolaMap
  • Index
• Studying specific region and making beautiful plot
  • Area
  • Crater
  • Dome
  • Index
• Support

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page