ROSCO is a codebase originally developed at NASA/JPL to detect rocks in aerial imagery by by looking for their shadows.
This repository brings several existing sources into a linear history and is the currently active branch of the shadow-based rock detection code from 2006 to present. The sources included:
- code recovered from the original authors, Andres Huertas and Yang Cheng, used for the Mars Phoenix Lander mission
- code handed off by Andres at his retirement (used for the MSL and InSight missions)
- code used for the Mars 2020 mission
- the RockCollect user interface built by Bob Crocco.
- Andres Huertas (retired) - member of the computer vision group at NASA/JPL
- Yang Cheng - member of the Aerial and Orbital Image Analysis group at NASA/JPL
- Marshall Trautman - engineering applications software engineer at NASA/JPL
- Matthew Golombek - senior research scientist at NASA/JPL
- Shane Byrne - faculty member at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- Bob Crocco - software developer at NASA/JPL, primary author of the RockCollect user interface
- Marsette Vona - software developer at NASA/JPL
TODO
TODO
- Otero, Richard; Huertas, A.; Almeida, E.; Golombek, M.; Trautman, M.; Rothrock, B., 2017, "Mars 2020 robust rock detection and analysis method", 14th International Planetary Probe Workshop, The Hague, Netherlands, June 12-16, 2017, JPL Open Repository; CL17-2518.pdf.
- L. Matthies, A. Huertas, Y. Cheng and A. Johnson, "Stereo vision and shadow analysis for landing hazard detection," 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2008, pp. 2735-2742, doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543625.
- A. Huertas, Yang Cheng and R. Madison, "Passive imaging based multi-cue hazard detection for spacecraft safe landing," 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2006, pp. 14 pp.-, doi: 10.1109/AERO.2006.1655794.
- Golombek, M. P., et al. (2008), Size-frequency distributions of rocks on the northern plains of Mars with special reference to Phoenix landing surfaces, J. Geophys. Res., 113, E00A09, doi: 10.1029/2007JE003065.
This codebase is released under the Apache 2.0 license.