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• Telescope Moon Trek

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research facility and development center managed for NASA by Caltech that carries out robotic space and Earth science missions. JPL has conducted robotic missions to study all the planets in the solar system as well as asteroids, comets and the Earth's moon. Today JPL continues its world-leading innovation, implementing programs in planetary exploration, Earth science, space-based astronomy, and technology development.

Through the missions involving collecting data from Earth's moon JPL has created Moon Trek, a mapping and modeling portal. The site contains high-resolution data sets covering most of the Moon. These include imagery and digital elevation models - but also hundreds of layers of spectrometry, radiometry, gravity fields, radar, slope, roughness, mineralogy. Additionally, there are tools that allow for analysis and rendering of derived datasets.

JPL is partnering with California State University - Los Angeles, College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology to build an interface between Moon Trek and telescopes amateur astronomers use to look at the Moon. When images from the telescope are routed to a laptop or a smartphone they will be annotated with names of lunar features and landmarks, local temperature, chemical makeup of the soil -- or any available information the astronomer chooses.

Project Description

Creating a Web Application in which the user will be able to provide an image from a telescope. When feeding an image of the moon from a telescope, the application will provide additional information to the user about its moon feed. The features that are provided are important annotations such as important landing sites, local temperatures, chemical makeups of the soil -- such as iron, etc. 

The application goal is to obtain the additional features from the JPL's Moon Trek portal, which already contains a vast amount of data regarding the moon. The extra annotations that the user will receive, need to be correctly correlated to the image of the moon that they're seeing in the telescope.

To complete our main task of creating the application we must first implement important technical steps to achieve the best accuracy of annotations to the image provided by the telescope. With the help of our image registration implementation, we accurately pinpoint the user's telescope image to the according extra information of the moon gathered from JPL's Moon Trek Portal. 

Project Development Team

Team Lead - Nicolas Ojeda 

Communications/Customer Relations Lead - Alex Lamb

Computer Vision Lead - Elvira Sakalenka

Front End Graphics Lead - Gerard Rosario

Front End Tech Lead - Pavit Chawla 

Back End Lead - Albert Ramirez 

Development (Graphics Model) - Kevin Aguilera 

QA/Testing Lead - Jacob Frausto

Liaison - Natalie Gallegos

Liaison - Shan Malhotra

Meeting Times

Team and Advisor - Fridays  10am-11am

Team and Liaisons - Fridays 11am-12pm

Team Members - Tues/Th 2pm-3pm

Links

Github Repo : https://github.com/nicocoa10/MoonTrekTelescopeV2