Multi-mapper Projects: Collaborative Mercury Mapping
Date Issued
2019
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Abstract
Taking up the challenge of mapping the entire surface of a planetary body may present different levels of difficulty. The effort and time required for such a project depends mainly on the available data quality and workforce. The resolution and coverage of the basemaps provided as data sets by the space missions determine the highest acceptable mapping scale and the possible extent of a project, respectively. The larger the mapping scale, the longer the work. If many mappers are involved, this can considerably decrease the time needed for completing a global map by producing a series of regional maps. However, this also increases the risk of mismatches between the mapped regions. In order to better analyse the complexity of such a plan, here we examine the case of the Mercury 1:3M-scale global mapping project. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
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Planetary Cartography and GIS
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207
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