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Autores principales: Driver, Travis, Christian, John A.
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17125
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Christian, John A.
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Christian, John A.
contents Optical navigation is a critical component for lunar orbiter and lander missions. Image-based crater identification has emerged as a promising technology for optical navigation due to the abundance of craters on the lunar surface and the availability of extensive crater catalogs. Moreover, due to the relative morphological homogeneity among lunar craters, template matching has been identified as a promising approach for identification. In this paper, we propose EigenCrater, an automated crater template generation method based on principal component analysis of crater digital elevation maps (DEMs). We demonstrate superior detection and position estimation performance relative to hand-picked templates on simulated lunar imagery.
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spellingShingle Principal Component Analysis for Lunar Crater Detection
Driver, Travis
Christian, John A.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Optical navigation is a critical component for lunar orbiter and lander missions. Image-based crater identification has emerged as a promising technology for optical navigation due to the abundance of craters on the lunar surface and the availability of extensive crater catalogs. Moreover, due to the relative morphological homogeneity among lunar craters, template matching has been identified as a promising approach for identification. In this paper, we propose EigenCrater, an automated crater template generation method based on principal component analysis of crater digital elevation maps (DEMs). We demonstrate superior detection and position estimation performance relative to hand-picked templates on simulated lunar imagery.
title Principal Component Analysis for Lunar Crater Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17125