The Imaging Node for the Planetary Data System

• Published in: Planetary and space science Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 23 - 32
• Main Authors: Eliason, Eric M., LaVoie, Susan K., Soderblom, Laurence A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 1996
• ISSN: 0032-0633; 1873-5088
• DOI: 10.1016/0032-0633(95)00103-4

The Planetary Data System Imaging Node maintains and distributes the archives of planetary image data acquired from NASA's flight projects with the primary goal of enabling the science community to perform image processing and analysis on the data. The Node provides direct and easy access to the digital image archives through wide distribution of the data on CD-ROM media and on-line remote-access tools by way of Internet services. The Node provides digital image processing tools and the expertise and guidance necessary to understand the image collections. The data collections, now approaching one terabyte in volume, provide a foundation for remote sensing studies for virtually all the planetary systems in our solar system (except for Pluto). The Node is responsible for restoring data sets from past missions in danger of being lost. The Node works with active flight projects to assist in the creation of their archive products and to ensure that their products and data catalogs become an integral part of the Node's data collections.