An introduction to the data and tools of planetary geomorphology

Abstract

This manuscript presents a review of data used by planetary geomorphologists and the software tools needed to prepare, process, and analyze those data, along with an example of doing so. Visible image capture and the photometric and geometric processing of those images are reviewed, as are laser altimetry data, and terrain data derived from images via stereogrammetry. Image processing, geographic, and geospatial software tools are discussed.