Abstract

GIS Infrastructure Goals for the Next NASA Lunar Missions
Track: Parks and Natural Reserves
Author(s): Trent Hare, Lucian Plesea

NASA is taking the initial steps to once again set foot on the
moon and enable future manned missions to Mars and beyond.
To help accomplish this, NASA will first send the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), to collect new images and
topography of the moon, which along with legacy and new
international mission data can be used to map sites of interest
and to find the best location for a lunar outpost. GIS
technologies plan to be heavily leveraged and made available
across the community. Several NASA funded facilities have
already started to cooperate and design the infrastructure
required to meet these goals under the LPRP Lunar Mapping and
Modeling Program. Here we will discuss some of the progress
that has already been made at the U.S. Geological Survey and
the Jet Propulsion Libratory including reviving legacy lunar
datasets, OGC web services, GIS tools and plans for the future.

Trent Hare
United States Geological Survey
Astrogeology Team
2255 N. Gemini Drive
Flagstaff , Arizona 86001
United States
Phone: 928-556-7126
E-mail: thare@usgs.gov

Lucian Plesea
Science Data Understanding Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory MS: 306-463
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena , California 91109
United States
Phone: 818-354-3928
E-mail: Lucian.Plesea@jpl.nasa.gov