Autonomous Detection of Volcanic Plumes on Outer Planetary Bodies

作者：Lin Yucong^*; Bunte Melissa; Saripalli Srikanth; Greeley Ronald

来源：IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012-05-14 to 2012-05-18.

We experimentally evaluated the efficacy of various autonomous supervised classification techniques for detecting transient geophysical phenomena. We demonstrated methods of detecting volcanic plumes on the planetary satellites Io and Enceladus using spacecraft images from the Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, and Cassini missions. We successfully detected 73-95% of known plumes in images from all four mission datasets. Additionally, we showed that the same techniques are applicable to differentiating geologic features, such as plumes and mountains, which exhibit similar appearances in images.

• 出版日期2012