3DPD: A photogrammetric pipeline for a PUSH frame stereo cameras

The suite of photogrammetry and imaging tools, named 3DPD (3Dimensional reconstruction of Planetary Data) (Simioni et al. 2017), is designed for processing stereo push frame data and producing the three-dimensional data for geomorphological analysis of planetary surfaces.

The workflow involves a MATLAB tool for the preparation of the inputs (the mosaicked images and the projection matrices) to be ingested into the 3DPD matching core software. The pipeline is in continuous development and routinely ingests a large number of images that CaSSIS is presently acquiring and will continue to acquire in the future. CaSSIS 3DPD products are the unique DTMs available nowadays and the stereo products have been considered in some scientific work (as described in Section 6.2). The same pipeline faces the need of a dedicated pipeline for the Mercury Global Mapping with the Spectrometers and Imagers for the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem (SIMBIO-SYS) (Cremonese et al., 2020).