The Chang E-3 landing and working area selecting: Based on the lunar digital terrain model

Author

Zhaonan Wang ; Xin Huang ; Haoran Zhou ; Yueyuan Ma ; Yuanzheng Xiao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Earth & Space Sci., Geographic Inf. Syst. & Remote Sensing Inst., China

fYear

2013

fDate

20-22 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper focuses on the landing region of Chang E-3 (the satellite that will soon be sent to the Moon by Chinese government in 2013). The topographical and thermal factors are considered in our addressing model. Regions with a relatively lower slope and shadowed by hills several times a day are thought to be much easier for satellites to land and work on because these kinds of regions have a proper surface temperature and lower moving difficulty. Through our calculation, a difficult level map is given for proper landing and working regions.

Keywords

artificial satellites; lunar surface; planetary remote sensing; Chang E-3 landing and working area selecting; Chinese government; Moon; difficult level map; hills; lunar digital terrain model; moving difficulty; proper landing region; proper surface temperature; thermal factors; topographical factors; working region; Equations; Lighting; Mathematical model; Moon; Surface topography; Chang E-3; Hillshade; Lunar GIS; Moon Landing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoinformatics (GEOINFORMATICS), 2013 21st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kaifeng

ISSN

2161-024X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Geoinformatics.2013.6626076

Filename

6626076