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Copernicus Publications, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, (XLI-B6), p. 17-24, 2016

DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b6-17-2016

Copernicus Publications, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, (XLI-B6), p. 17-24

DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b6-17-2016

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Mapping Landslides in Lunar Impact Craters Using Chebyshev Polynomials and Dem’s

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Abstract

Abstract. Geological slope failure processes have been observed on the Moon surface for decades, nevertheless a detailed and exhaustive lunar landslide inventory has not been produced yet. For a preliminary survey, WAC images and DEM maps from LROC at 100 m/pixels have been exploited in combination with the criteria applied by Brunetti et al. (2015) to detect the landslides. These criteria are based on the visual analysis of optical images to recognize mass wasting features. In the literature, Chebyshev polynomials have been applied to interpolate crater cross-sections in order to obtain a parametric characterization useful for classification into different morphological shapes. Here a new implementation of Chebyshev polynomial approximation is proposed, taking into account some statistical testing of the results obtained during Least-squares estimation. The presence of landslides in lunar craters is then investigated by analyzing the absolute values off odd coefficients of estimated Chebyshev polynomials. A case study on the Cassini A crater has demonstrated the key-points of the proposed methodology and outlined the required future development to carry out.