For Yous Data - Catalogue Of Planetary Maps Highlights The Evolving Persuasion Of The Solar System

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 catalogue that provides an overview of over 2,200 planetary maps produced worldwide betwixt 1600 as well as 2018 has been presented today at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 inwards Berlin. The catalogue has been produced past times Henrik Hargitai, from Eötvös Loránd University inwards Budapest (Hungary), as well as Mateusz Pitura, from the University of Wroclaw (Poland).

Details of 4 maps representing planetary maps amongst dissimilar themes, goals as well as eras. 1647: 1 of the offset detailed
telescopic maps of the Moon, amongst an Earth-like representation (J. Hevelius: Selenographia). 1824: the offset segmented
 lunar map amongst topographic as well as albedo details of the Moon, using hachures (W. Lohrman: Topographie der
sichtbaren Mondoberflaeche, Dresden). 1960: the offset astrogeologic map of the Moon, the Lunar Photogeologic
Chart (LPC 58) that introduced stratigraphic methods to planetary mapping (EM Shoemaker, RJ Hackman, USA).
2016: Map of Charon designed for children, representing a novel type of outreach maps
[Credit: A. Gyöngyösi, Hungary]

"Production of planetary maps started inwards Europe inwards the 1600s. It expanded to the U.S.A. as well as the Soviet Union inwards the 1960s and, to a greater extent than recently, has spread to China as well as Japan," said Hargitai. "Over time, mapping has teach less coordinated as well as to a greater extent than diverse, then that today it is becoming challenging to oversee the proliferation of spatial information published inwards dissimilar countries past times institutions, private researchers and, increasingly, citizen scientists. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mutual database is needed."

To render this definitive overview, Hargitai as well as Pitura convey created the opened upwards access "International Catalogue of Planetary Maps", available at planetarymapping.org as well as through the International Cartographic Association's Commission on Planetary Cartography. The information tin flame move filtered past times author, year, country, scale, type as well as let on long-term trends inwards planetary mapping as well as planetary scientific discipline activities. Recent web-based map services, such every bit MoonTrek past times NASA/JPL/Caltech or OpenPlanetaryMap's vector basemap of Mars are organised into layers then that the user tin flame sentiment as well as analyse planetary surfaces inwards especial amongst Geographic Information System (GIS) tools. Most of the maps inwards the catalogue nowadays Mars (40% of all maps) as well as the Luna (46%) whereas mapping of Venus (5%), Mercury (2%) as well as the Jovian moons (4%) has produced many less examples. Around 20% of all maps are geologic maps that stand upwards for the nigh complex planetary cartographic analysis.

"Our catalogue is beingness updated regularly amongst both newly resurfaced historic maps as well as novel additions. For the future, nosotros computer program to add together maps that convey been published inwards mag articles as well as digitise maps that practise non nonetheless include GIS formats," added Hargitai. "We alive inwards a transition menses where static maps that characterised the final 400 years may teach extinct, replaced past times dynamic digital map services as well as tools. In the digital platforms it is becoming hard fifty-fifty to define what nosotros consider to move a "map", as well as non only layers of spatial data. Maps are used for mission planning, surface operation, as well as post-mission analysis. In the nigh future, they volition move telephone commutation components of planning as well as operating novel human missions."

Source: Europlanet [September 23, 2018]


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