The other day I attended the i-Mars Final Dissemination Event here at UCL (it's nice to find that your Uni shares interest in your hobby )
i-Mars is (or was) a project to use high-resolution imagery (mainly the HRSC datasef generated by Mars Express, but also locally CTX and HiRISE) to create co-registered 3D datasets including elevation and orthoimages. They specialise mainly on finding change (new impacts, moving dunes, dust devil tracks, polar ice falls, etc.), but also showed a few cool 3D movies of terrain flyovers.
This got me to look into the HRSC data to use for Orbiter, to replace the current MOC/MOLA data. Unfortunately HRSC currently has got fairly patchy coverage, and they don't seem to provide high-level data products so far, so I'll need to stitch the mosaics together myself. But certain scenic areas like Valles Marineris and Olympus Mons seem to be well-covered, so I'll try a local high-res treatment of Valles Marineris to see if this is feasible.
i-Mars is (or was) a project to use high-resolution imagery (mainly the HRSC datasef generated by Mars Express, but also locally CTX and HiRISE) to create co-registered 3D datasets including elevation and orthoimages. They specialise mainly on finding change (new impacts, moving dunes, dust devil tracks, polar ice falls, etc.), but also showed a few cool 3D movies of terrain flyovers.
This got me to look into the HRSC data to use for Orbiter, to replace the current MOC/MOLA data. Unfortunately HRSC currently has got fairly patchy coverage, and they don't seem to provide high-level data products so far, so I'll need to stitch the mosaics together myself. But certain scenic areas like Valles Marineris and Olympus Mons seem to be well-covered, so I'll try a local high-res treatment of Valles Marineris to see if this is feasible.