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This repository contains 10,800 PNGs that provide heightmap data for the Moon for latitudes 0 to 60 and longitudes 0 to 180

Sample Use of Data in 3D App

Moon Rover 256P Code Edit View Fullscreen

Moon Rover 256P Demo Full Screen - Dev

This demo uses heightmap data to:

To display the Moon in as much 3D detail as possible
To enable you to explore craters and the dark side and more

Sample Use of Data on Remote Web Site

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Read multiple PNG files and combine

Combines multiple heightmap PNG files into one view
Use cursor keys to navigate
Edit parameters in the code or use permalinks

Data hosted on GitHub pages is CORS-compatible and may therefor be accessed from any web site or server. The example above access the heightmap data on GitHub from an HTL file hosted on jsFiddle.

Features

Use of PNG files

Needs description of the data

The use of PNG files as heightmaps solves many problems and provides many benefits/

Data is highly compressed without loss
Files are transmitted and cached speedily and effortlessly
Creating mash-ups with data from multiple servers is easy and permissible
You can actually look at the file and see something
The scope and range of tools to process PNG files is huge

File information Info

Data from first line of file WAC_GLD100_E300N0450_256P.IMG

PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3

/* The source image data definition. */
RECORD_TYPE = FIXED_LENGTH
RECORD_BYTES = 46080
FILE_RECORDS = 15361
LABEL_RECORDS = 1
^IMAGE = 2

/* Identification Information */
DATA_SET_ID = "LRO-L-LROC-5-RDR-V1.0"
DATA_SET_NAME = "LRO MOON LROC 5 RDR V1.0"
VOLUME_ID = 'LROLRC_2001'
PRODUCER_INSTITUTION_NAME = "ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY"
PRODUCER_ID = LRO_LROC_TEAM
PRODUCER_FULL_NAME = "MARK ROBINSON, PH.D"
PRODUCT_ID = "WAC_GLD100_E300N0450_256P"
PRODUCT_VERSION_ID = "v1.2"
PRODUCT_TYPE = "RDR"
INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER"
INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "LRO"
INSTRUMENT_NAME = "LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER CAMERA"
INSTRUMENT_ID = "LROC"
TARGET_NAME = MOON
MISSION_PHASE_NAME = ("NOMINAL MISSION", "SCIENCE MISSION")
RATIONALE_DESC = "Created at the request of NASA's Exploration
Systems Mission Directorate to support future
human exploration"
SOFTWARE_NAME = "DLR Software Suite with ISIS 3.2.1"

/* Time Parameters */
START_TIME = "N/A"
STOP_TIME = "N/A"
SPACECRAFT_CLOCK_START_COUNT = "N/A"
SPACECRAFT_CLOCK_STOP_COUNT = "N/A"
PRODUCT_CREATION_TIME = 2011-11-14T22:05:42

/* NOTE: */
/* This raster image is composed of a set of pixels that represent finite */
/* areas, and not discrete points. The center of the upper left pixel is */
/* defined as line and sample (1.0,1.0). The */
/* [LINE,SAMPLE]_PROJECTION_OFFSET elements are the pixel offset from line */
/* and sample (1.0,1.0) to the map projection origin (defined by the */
/* CENTER_LATITUDE and CENTER_LONGITUDE elements). These offset values */
/* are positive when the map projection origin is to the right or below */
/* the center of the upper left pixel. This definition was adopted in */
/* November 2011 by the LROC team. */

OBJECT = IMAGE_MAP_PROJECTION
^DATA_SET_MAP_PROJECTION = "DSMAP.CAT"
MAP_PROJECTION_TYPE = EQUIRECTANGULAR
PROJECTION_LATITUDE_TYPE = PLANETOCENTRIC
A_AXIS_RADIUS = 1737.4 <KM>
B_AXIS_RADIUS = 1737.4 <KM>
C_AXIS_RADIUS = 1737.4 <KM>
COORDINATE_SYSTEM_NAME = PLANETOCENTRIC
POSITIVE_LONGITUDE_DIRECTION = EAST
KEYWORD_LATITUDE_TYPE = PLANETOCENTRIC
/* NOTE: CENTER_LATITUDE and CENTER_LONGITUDE describe the location */
/* of the center of projection, which is not necessarily equal to the */
/* location of the center point of the image. */
CENTER_LATITUDE = 0 <DEG>
CENTER_LONGITUDE = 0 <DEG>
LINE_FIRST_PIXEL = 1
LINE_LAST_PIXEL = 15360
SAMPLE_FIRST_PIXEL = 1
SAMPLE_LAST_PIXEL = 23040
MAP_PROJECTION_ROTATION = 0.0 <DEG>
MAP_RESOLUTION = 256.00000000001 <PIX/DEG>
MAP_SCALE = 118.45058759433 <METERS/PIXEL>
MAXIMUM_LATITUDE = 60.0 <DEG>
MINIMUM_LATITUDE = 0.0 <DEG>
EASTERNMOST_LONGITUDE = 90.0 <DEG>
WESTERNMOST_LONGITUDE = 0.0 <DEG>
LINE_PROJECTION_OFFSET = 15359.500000001 <PIXEL>
SAMPLE_PROJECTION_OFFSET = -0.5 <PIXEL>
END_OBJECT = IMAGE_MAP_PROJECTION

OBJECT = IMAGE
DESCRIPTION = "The Global Lunar DTM 100 m topographic model
(GLD100) is derived from images acquired with
the LROC Wide Angle Camera"

LINES = 15360
LINE_SAMPLES = 23040
SAMPLE_TYPE = LSB_INTEGER
SAMPLE_BITS = 16
SAMPLE_BIT_MASK = 2#1111111111111111#
CORE_NULL = -32768
CORE_LOW_REPR_SATURATION = -32767
CORE_LOW_INSTR_SATURATION = -32766
CORE_HIGH_REPR_SATURATION = -32764
CORE_HIGH_INSTR_SATURATION = -32765

BAND_STORAGE_TYPE = BAND_SEQUENTIAL
BANDS = 1

END_OBJECT = IMAGE
END

From http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_rdr/WAC_GLD100

The WAC Digital Terrain Model (DTM) was constructed from WAC stereo images. This new map is called the Global Lunar DTM 100 m topographic model, or "GLD100", and covers 98.2% of the lunar surface. Using digital photogrammetric techniques the GLD100 was computed from 69,000 WAC stereo models. Due to persistent shadows near the poles it is not possible to create a complete WAC stereo map at the very highest latitudes. The GLD100 thus covers from 79° S latitude to 79° N latitude. Since the stereo correlation box is bigger than 100 meters, surface details at the 100-meter scale are not fully resolved. However, each 100-meter square has an average of 26 stereo points within it (for a planet-wide total of 100 billion points), which helps to sharpen the elevation estimate. The resolution, in a formal sense, is probably close to 300 meters, and the accuracy of the elevations is estimated to be about 10 to 20 meters (Scholten et al JGR in press).

The GLD100 is available in the original 100 meters/pixel scale format in ten tiles. The GLD100 is also available in same tile format for scales of 256 pixels per degree (ppd) and 128 ppd. The LRO Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) excels at characterizing the topography of the poles. Since the LRO orbits converge at the poles LOLA provides a very high resolution topographic model of the poles. For the 256 ppd and lower resolution formats the LOLA polar data fills in the WAC "hole at the pole".

The WAC topography was produced by LROC team members at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

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