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MESS MDIS MAP PROJ HIGH-INCIDENCE BASEMAP EAST RDR V1.0

Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

Abstract ======== The Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) consists of two cameras, a Wide Angle Camera (WAC) and a Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), mounted on a common pivot platform. This dataset includes Map Projected High- Incidence Angle Basemap Illuminated from the East RDRs (HIEs) which comprise a global map of I/F measured by the NAC or WAC filter 7 (both centered near 750 nm) during the the Extended Mission at high incidence angles to accentuate subtle topography, photometrically normalized to a solar incidence angle (i) = 30 degrees, emission angle (e) = 0 degrees, and phase angle (g) = 30 degrees at a spatial sampling of 256 pixels per degree. The HIE data set is a companion to the Map Projected High-Incidence Angle Basemap Illluminated from the West RDR (HIW) data set. Together the two data sets are intended to detect and allow the mapping of subtle topography. They complement a Basemap Data Record (BDR) data set also composed of WAC filter 7 and NAC images acquired at moderate/high solar incidence angles centered near 68 degrees (changed to 74 degrees in the final end-of-mission data delivery), and a Low Incidence Angle (LOI) data set also composed of WAC filter 7 and NAC images acquired at lower incidence centered near 45 degrees, analogous to the geometry used for color imaging. The map is divided into 54 'tiles', each representing the NW, NE, SW, or SE quadrant of one of the 13 non-polar or one of the 2 polar quadrangles or 'Mercury charts' already defined by the USGS. Each tile also contains 5 backplanes: observation ID; BDR metric, a metric used to determine the stacking order of component images, modified for the higher incidence angle centered near 78 degrees; solar incidence angle; emission angle; and phase angle.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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https://pds.nasa.gov

Dates

Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
Data Update Frequency irregular

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier urn:nasa:pds:context_pds3:data_set:data_set.mess-h-mdis-5-rdr-hie-v1.0_d2wt-6dzn
Data First Published 2021-05-21
Data Last Modified 2023-01-26
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
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Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewDataset.jsp?dsid=MESS-H-MDIS-5-RDR-HIE-V1.0
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 026:005
Related Documents https://pds.nasa.gov
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 3ed3722187fefe3791338105df848af26dc30a1d4b08c17737405ba8adafa191
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