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The Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been acquiring images of Titan's surface since October 2004. Radar data suffer from speckle noise hindering interpretation of small-scale features and comparison of reimaged regions for topography derivation and potential detection. By combining a state of the art denoising algorithm with mapping and quantitative measurements we greatly offer previously unattainable insights and introducing the denoising version of the Cassini SAR named NLDSAR....
PDSIMAGE is a python module which aims to facilitate the extraction of knowledge from the data collected by two experiments on board of LRO:The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimer (LOLA) experiment which collected high resolution topographic data of the lunar surface.The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) experiment which collected images of the lunar surface. In particular, we focus on Wide Angle Images taken from the Wide Angle Camera (WAC).Highlighted...
SHTOOLS is an archive of fortran 95 based software that can be used to perform spherical harmonic transforms and reconstructions, rotations of spherical harmonic coefficients, and multitaper spectral analyses on the sphere. While several collections of code currently exist for working with data expressed in spherical harmonics, this one is unique for several reasons: It can accommodate any standard normalization of the spherical harmonic functions ("geodesy" 4π normalized,...
3D Synthetic Seismogram Package is a set of libraries and programs for the computation of normal modes and seismograms for a wide variety of 3D Earth models. This code is based on the higher order perturbation theory in seismology developed by Philippe Lognonné, and requires only a few parameter settings. The codes runs successfully on several operating systems. Disk space of at least 1 GB and 600 MB of memory are recommended for practical use. The source code is contained in gzip/...
OPTICLEAFOPTICLEAF is a comprehensive database on leaf optical properties. To date, it gathers about 3000 bibliographical references that are related to this topic. A web search engine allows to sort the articles according to several criteria: author, year of publication, Latin name of the plant species, keyword, journal. Online simulations of the PROSPECT-5 model provide directional-hemispherical reflectance and transmittance spectra in the solar domain (400-2500 nm) at a resolution of 1 nm....