Planetary Data visualization blog
We have started a blog, where we post the most creative methods of planetary surface feature and phenomenon visualization
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Commission Meeting 2012 Moscow: Call for papers
Call for papers: Planetary cartography: science, art and outreach
Commission meeting of the ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography
Wednesday 11 July 2012, Moscow, MIIGAiK (Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography)
The meeting is held together with MIIGAiK Extraterrestrial Laboratory’s summer school on “Planetary cartography and image processing”, 9-13 July, 2012.
We invite planetary and earth scientists, cartographers and students involved in the mapping of Solar System bodies. The meeting will have special focus on how planetary science results are communicated to the general public in cartographic products. Possible topics include but are not limited to: methods in planetary mapping; map design; nomenclature; planetary cartographic resources and databases; results from recently imaged bodies; small scale global and very large scale local maps; mapping landing sites; thematic mapping; planetary maps in the news media; planetary maps in school atlases and textbooks; digital/online planetary maps.
Registration
Those who registered for the summer school week or Europlanet 7th European Strategic Meteor Workshop are free to participate.
Fee for those not registered for the summer school week: 30 USD.
Registration is not required for those who participate only in the business meeting.
Submission information
You can chose from the following options:
- oral presentation with paper (2-5 pages)
- oral presentation with short abstract only (200-400 characters)
- paper only presentation
Language of papers/presentations: English
Papers or abstracts should be sent directly by e-mail as attachment in doc or pdf format to hhargitai [at] gmail.com.
Template for the paper can be downloaded from our website: ica_cpc_template_2012
Papers presented will be made available at the commission website as open access documents.
REGISTRATION
Please send your abstract, name, affiliation to: hhargitai [at] gmail.com.
IMPORTANT DATES
Registration (abstract and personal data): June 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2012
Final paper submission deadline: June 25, 2012, 24:00 GMT
SCHEDULE
Wednesday 11 July 2012
1. Presentations
2. Business meeting
Sponsors
ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography
Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography
Location
Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography http:// www.miigaik.ru
Address: MIIGAiK #4 , Gorokhovsky pereulok 105064, Moscow, RUSSIA
- Kurskaya Metro Station, Trolleybus Lines A,10
- Baumanskaya Metro Station, Trolleybus Lines 25, 45
Visa information
Please note the following requirements for business travel to Russia
Passport must be available (ID card not sufficient); valid 6 months beyond intended stay
Russian Visa is required, which can be applied for at the respective Russian embassies or consulates.
The Visa applications typically require
- an invitation letter (which MIIGAIK will supply, please check appropriate box on registration page)
- hotel booking confirmation
Tickets and documents for return or onward travel must be available on entry to be presented to the immigration officer
Contacts for obtaining invitation letter at MIIGAiK:
Tel: + 7(499) 261-62-43
Fax: + 7(499) 267-25-18;
E- Mail: europlanet [at] miigaik.ru
http://europlanet.miigaik.ru/2012/English_version/reg/visa.php
MIIGAiK Extraterrestrial Laboratory (MExLab) is organizing the Summer school: «Planetary cartography and image processing»
9-13 July 2012, MIIGAiK, Moscow
We invite the older students, PhD students and young scientists to participate in Summer school for Planetary cartography and image processing which is organized with support of DLR, TUB, FUB and ICA with the aim to develop the science research methodology, to support the applied works in remote sensing data processing and to implement the modern analysis instruments in to the daily work.
The summer school will offer the five days of tutorials, lectures and practice. We plan to focus on the following interesting topics:
- Crater dating theory
- Crater identification
- Crater tools
- Craterstats software
- Resurfacing effects
- Randomness/clustering analysis
- Open Source Spatial Databases, Data Analysis and Processing, GIS Systems
- Map Servers
- Cluster Setup and Cluster Processing
- Shell/Python Scripting
- Planetary maps and GIS, 3D visualization
- Planetary Geomorphology on the maps
Official language of the Summer School is English
The competitive selection of the participants will be organized.
You can make the registration till 01/05/2012 on-line.
Please contact Mikhail Semenov for the additional information at: summer2012@mexlab.ru
Mars – Connecting Planetary Scientists in Europe (MPSE)
ESA sponsored conference to support planetary science in Central and Eastern Europe supported by ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography, with Planetary map exhibition.
More information: http://www.konkoly.hu/MPSE/
A new world in the Gazetteer: Vesta
Vesta, the latest of the bodies discovered as “worlds” with surface features, has been populated by names since October 2011.
Dawn: Rheasilvia crater and Rubens: Rhea Silvia from Mars and Rhea Silvia
The Dawn team proposed to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to use the names of vestal virgins and famous Roman women as names for the craters and to use names of places and festivals associated with vestal virgins for other feature names. This proposal was accepted by the IAU (Roatsch et al. 2012). Individual names were also proposed by Dawn Team members (Blue 2012).
The most promiment crater (or basin) has been named Rheasilvia. This impact may be the source of HED meteorites, which, mythologically speaking, should be considered the Romulus and Remus.
Rhea Silvia was the mythical mother of Romulus and Remus (from Mars as father).
The Gazetter defines her as “Roman vestal virgin”, although she was only vestal virgin in the legend, while in reality vestal virgins were real persons: priestesses of Vesta in Rome.
According to the Gazetteer, her birth date is ”c. 770 B.C.” (~20 years before the historical foundation of Rome, 753 B.C.) although Rheasilvia is a mythological character; probably a demi-goddess of forests as her name Silvia (Forest) suggests.
Names composed of two parts, compound names, are not preferred but found on the Moon (Giordano Bruno, Jules Verne, Julius Caesar, Kamerlingh Onnes etc.) and are frequently seen on Earth (New York). Rheasilvia, however is spelled in one word. Minor body names are “preferably one word” but there are exceptions: 19367 Pink Floyd or 19383 Rolling Stones. 178 out of 10038 names were composed of 2 or 3 words (in 1992).
An interesting distiction in the Gazetteer for Vesta crater names is that “Approved names are not meant to commemorate individuals, but merely as names for surface features.” This approach is similar to that of small Martian crater names “No commemoration of specific towns or villages is intended.”
Sources: Jennifer S. Blue 2012, personal communication, Rita Schulz, WGPSN webpage, wikipedia, Lutz D. Schmadel: Dictionary of minor planet names, 1. Roatsch Th et al. 2012: HIGH RESOLUTION VESTA HAMO ATLAS DERIVED FROM DAWN FC IMAGES. LPSC 43, #1765.
Currently complete nomenclature: http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/vesta.pdf
Video contest: Modern cartography
The International Cartographic Association invites students, young cartographers, enthusiasts to express their vision on modern cartography through the development of a video that will be suitable for uploading on YouTube.
It is envisaged that the video would focus on content like:
• how cartography (including planetary cartography – Ed.) relates to situations in daily life;
• what is the role of cartographers (including planetary cartography! – Ed.).
A cash prize will be awarded to the amount of €300 to the winning video. The ICA will make the video available on YouTube, the ICA website and for promoting cartography globally.
The video will be made available free of charge to ICA national members, educationalists, etc.
Contestants must submit their video till the deadline, 1 June 2012.
The videos entered into this competition will be judged by the ICA Executive Committee.
Videos will be judged on originality, creativity, adherence to theme.
To enter, Contestants must upload their video to the web (preferably to YouTube) and send the link to the ICA Secretary-General: sg@icaci.org.
SPECIFIC TERMS AND CONDITIONS
• The video should be 2 minutes or less in duration and be produced in a format suitable for being uploaded on a web page.
• The video must be produced in English language or subtitled in English.
• All special devices should appear without any distinctive brand name or logo except the logo of ICA.
• If filming others, you must have their permission before it is submitted to the contest. These permissions must be emailed to the ICA Secretary-General along with the information regarding the link to the video.
• The competition is open to production companies and to individuals worldwide.
• ICA reserves the right to reject any video which is deemed to have been produced in poor taste, deemed inappropriate and/or does not meet the requirements.
• The participants will keep all author’s rights and related rights to their video. They will nevertheless give ICA the right:
to to communicate and broadcast the video to the general public on the website and at events, conferences,
to to disseminate the video via the internet.
The winner will receive the cash award and a certificate. The winner of the competition will and be announced on the ICA website.
The Blue and Yellow Moon
Using LRO data, we have created the topographic globe of the Moon as never seen before… in beautiful blue and yellow hues. You can travel on the Moon wherever you want to and discover not only craters, but also various multiring basins, ejecta patterns, winding lava channels, misterious hills, networks of wrinkle ridges, and tectonic scarps.
You can Download the globe kmz from http://planetologia.elte.hu/ipcd/ipcd.html?cim=lro_globe
LROC data provided courtesy of NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/DLR
Lunar Topography – As Never Seen Before!
From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration
From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration addresses our visual perceptions of the Moon, from Earth and from space, and demonstrates how advances in optical technologies have increased our understanding over time. This is an exhibition exploring our relationship to the Moon through the lens of the sciences. From Galileo’s first observations to today’s powerful telescopes, this exhibition will include a broad range of man’s attempts at mapping and understanding lunar history.
http://moon.cofc.edu/images.html
Welcome!
Welcome to the new webpage of the ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography.
Learn about our projects, download and use our maps, and get involved – join us.
You can create planetary maps for fun, lading site selection, or any other purposes in between.
