Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Mortensen, H. B..
The Solid-State Imaging subsystem (SSI) on NASA's Galileo Jupiter orbiter spacecraft has successfully completed its two-year primary mission exploring the Jovian system. The SSI has remained in remarkably stable calibration during the 8-year flight, and the quality of the returned images is exceptional.
It has been demonstrated that image processing techniques can provide an effective means of simulating flight over remotely sensed data (Hussey et al. 1986). This paper explains the methods used to simulate and animate three-dimensional surfaces from two-dimensional imagery. The preprocessing techniques used on the input data, the selection of the animation sequence, the generation of the animation frames, and the recording of the animation is covered. The software used for all steps is discussed.