2017/04/13 by T. M. Hare, Trent M. Hare, Angelo P. Rossi +5 · 29 citations
Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Cartography #Computer science #Data science #Database #Geographic information system #Geography #Geology #Geospatial analysis #Geospatial metadata #Interoperability #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Metadata #Planetary Science and Exploration #Remote sensing #Terrain #World Wide Web #astro-ph.IM #physics.geo-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.pss.2017.04.004
published in Planetary and Space Science 150, 36-42 (Elsevier BV) · 15 pages, 3 figures, from American Geophysical Union 2015 invited talk, In Press
openalex publication_date 2017/04/13 · arxiv created 2017/06/08 · arxiv updated 2017/06/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
For more than a decade there has been a push in the planetary science community to support interoperable methods for accessing and working with geospatial data. Common geospatial data products for planetary research include image mosaics, digital elevation or terrain models, geologic maps, geographic location databases (e.g., craters, volcanoes) or any data that can be tied to the surface of a planetary body (including moons, comets or asteroids). Several U.S. and international cartographic research institutions have converged on mapping standards that embrace standardized geospatial image formats, geologic mapping conventions, U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) cartographic and metadata standards, and notably on-line mapping services as defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).