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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

Build upon the previous Moon Trek Django-web application where the user shall capture an image of the Moon from their own telescope or shall upload a corresponding image of the Moon into the web application.

The user shall give the image to the web application, then in turn the web application provides point of interests on the Moon such as craters, maria, and landing sites. The Augmented Reality portion of the project lies in improving the data overlays, creating a 3D model of the Moon created by Jet Propulsion Lab's high-quality images of the Moon and user uploaded images of the Moon.

The team's objective is also to complete the telescope to computer communication, improve the accuracy of the image registration, and create a 3D-model of the Sun, Moon, and Earth based from the images uploaded. The same 3D model of Earth will also show an annotation of where the picture was taken and the time it was taken.

Project Development Team

Advisor - Weronika Cwir

Liaisons - Natalie Gallegos & Shan Malhotra

Telescope Integration Team - Daniel G. & Jason C. (Fu-Cheng)

User Interface Team - Niloy A. & Jonathan N.

Image Registration & Processing - Cindel L. & Byron G.

3D Modeling Team - Eduardo C. & Jingchao F.

Team & Project Leads - Matthew J. & Tony H. 

Meeting Times

Team and Advisor - Monday 9:00am-10:00am

Team and Liaisons - Every Other Tuesdays 11am-12pm

Team Members - Discord