Data Set Information
DATA_SET_NAME MRO CRISM DERIVED DATA RECORD V1.0
DATA_SET_ID MRO-M-CRISM-6-DDR-V1.0
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DATA_SET_TERSE_DESCRIPTION
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Data Set Overview :  This volume contains portions of the CRISM Derived Data Record (DDR) Archive, a collection of multiband images from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Images consist of information on observation conditions and surface physical properties at the Mars surface projections of IR and VNIR data cubes, mapped to the sensor space of non-map-projected data. The data are stored with PDS labels.  This volume also contains an index file ('imgindx.tab') that tabulates the contents of the volume, ancillary data files, and documentation files.  For more information on the contents and organization of the volume set refer to the aareadme.txt file located in the root directory of the data volumes.   Parameters :  CRISM observing scenarios are constructed using a set of key variables ('configurations') which include the following. All are selectable separately for the VNIR and IR detectors. Only a subset of the configurations represent 'scene' data, as indicated by the EDR keyword MRO:ACTIVITY_ID. Only scene data that are aimed at Mars have corresponding DDRs. Only those configurations that affect a DDR are discussed below:  Image source: Image data may be generated using digitized output from the detector, or using one of up to seven test patterns. Only data from the detector may have a corresponding DDR.  Pixel binning: Pixels can be saved unbinned or binned 2x, 5x, or 10x in the spatial direction. No pixel binning in the spectral direction is supported. Data with any pixel binning configuration may have a corresponding DDR, but the pixel binning configuration will affect the dimensionality of the DDR.  Calibration lamps: 4095 levels are commandable in each of two lamps at each focal plane, and in two lamps in the integrating sphere. All lamps can be commanded open-loop, meaning that current is commanded directly. For the integrating sphere only, closed loop control is available at 4095 settings. For closed loop control, the setting refers to output from a photodiode viewing the interior of the integrating sphere; current is adjusted dynamically to attain the commanded photodiode output. Note: lamps reach maximum current at open- or closed-loop settings <4095. Only data for which the calibration lamps are off may have an accompanying DDR.  Shutter position: Open, closed, or viewing the integrating sphere. The shutter is actually commandable directly to position 0 through 32. In software, open:3, sphere:17, closed:32. NOTE: during integration and testing, it was discovered that at positions <3 the hinge end of the shutter is directly illuminated and creates scattered light. Position 3 does not cause this effect, but the other end of the shutter slightly vignettes incoming light. Only data in which the shutter is open, and at position 3, may have an accompanying DDR.  Pointing: CRISM has two basic gimbal pointing configurations and two basic superimposed scan patterns. Pointing can be (1) fixed (nadir-pointed in the primary science orbit) or (2) dynamic, tracking a target point on the surface of Mars and taking out ground track motion. Two types of superimposed scans are supported: (1) a short, 4-second duration fixed-rate ('EPF-type') scan which superimposes a constant angular velocity scan on either of the basic pointing profiles, or (2) a long, minutes-duration fixed-rate ('target swath-type') scan. Pointing configuration affects the contents but not the dimensionality of a DDR.  Processing :  The CRISM data stream downlinked by the spacecraft unpacks into a succession of compressed image frames with binary headers containing housekeeping. In each image, one direction is spatial and one is spectral. There is one image for the VNIR focal plane and one image for the IR focal plane. The image from each focal plane has a header with 220 housekeeping items that contain full status of the instrument hardware, including data configuration, lamp and shutter status, gimbal position, a time stamp, and the target ID and macro within which the frame of data was taken. These parameters are stored as part of an Experiment Data Record (EDR), which consists of raw data, or a Targeted Reduced Data Record, or TRDR, the 'calibrated' equivalent of an EDR.  The data in one EDR or TRDR represent a series of image frames acquired with a consistent instrument configuration (shutter position, frame rate, pixel binning, compression, exposure time, on/off status and setting of different lamps). Each frame has dimensions of detector columns (spatial samples) and detector rows (wavelengths, or bands). The multiple image frames are concatenated, and are formatted into a single multiple-band image (suffix *.IMG) in one file, plus a detached list file in which each record has housekeeping information specific to one frame of the multiple-band image (suffix *.TAB). The multiple- band image has dimensions of sample, line, and wavelength. The size of the multiple-band image varies according to the observation mode but is deterministic given the macro ID. A typical multiple-band image might have XX pixels in the sample (cross-track) dimension, YY pixels in the line (along-track) dimension, and ZZ pixels in the wavelength dimension, where:  XX (samples) : 640/binning, where 640 is the number of columns read off the detector, and binning is 1, 2, 5, or 10;  YY (lines) : the number of image frames with a consistent instrument configuration; and  ZZ (bands) : the number of detector rows (wavelengths) whose read-out values are retained by the instrument.  Once image data are assembled into EDRs and calibrated into TRDRs, DDRs are created for the data. A version 0 DDR represents values based on predicted pointing, and is generated to provide quick-look information. Version 1 and subsequent versions of a DDR are based on actual, reconstructed pointing.  Each of the planes of a DDR represents some value evaluated at the surface intercept of Mars shape model, or at the intercept with a surface parallel to the areoid but having a distance from the planetary center equal to that of the intercept with the shape model. The following items, some represented in SPICE files or 'kernels,' affect the locations of the surface physical properties encoded in a DDR:  Position of Mars: This is encoded in the planetary ephemeris kernel.  Position of MRO: This is encoded in the spacecraft ephemeris kernel.  Orientation of MRO: This is encoded in the spacecraft C kernel.  Orientation of CRISM's gimbal in the MRO reference frame: This is encoded in the CRISM part of the MRO frames kernel.  Orientation of CRISM's VNIR and IR fields of view relative to the gimbal. This also is encoded in the CRISM part of the MRO frames kernel.  Position of CRISM's gimbal within its plane: This is encoded in a CRISM C kernel. CRISM's C kernel is derived from gimbal positions at the beginning, middle, and end of the integration of each line of an EDR or TRDR images file, which is given in the table of instrument housekeeping that accompanies every EDR and TRDR.  Position of each spatial pixel in a CRISM image relative to the center of the field of view: This is encoded in the instrument kernel.  Mars shape model and areoid: The shape model and areoid used to construct DDRs is from the Mars Orbiter Laser altimeter, or MOLA, gridded at 128 pixels per degree [SMITHETAL1999].  TES bolometric albedo and thermal inertia: These are gridded at 8 pixels per degree [MELLONETAL2000].  CRISM has optical distortions such that each wavelength, or band, has a very slightly different surface projection onto Mars. Each band corresponds to a row on the VNIR or IR detector. To avoid ambiguity, a DDR represents the physical information corresponding to the surface intercepts at a reference detector row near 610 nm (row number 223) for the VNIR, or near 2300 nm (row number 257) for the IR. The relationship between different bands is included in the instrument kernel.  The sequence of processing that creates a DDR is as follows. EDRs are assembled from raw data. TRDRs are created from the EDRs and Calibration Data Records, or CDRs, using a calibration algorithm discussed at length in an Appendix in the CRISM Data Products SIS. Gimbal positions are extracted from the EDR housekeeping and formatted as a gimbal C kernel. Using that and other SPICE kernels discussed above, the surface intercept on the MOLA shape model is calculated for each spatial pixel (sample at the reference detector row). The angles of this pixel relative to the equatorial plane and reference longitude constitute the latitude and longitude of the pixel. For that latitude and longitude, solar incidence, emission, and phase angles are determined at a surface parallel to the areoid but having a radius from planetary center equivalent to that of the surface intercept of the shape model. Solar incidence and emission are also determined relative to the shape model itself. Version 0 of the DDR is generated using predicted spacecraft orientation and ephemeris as soon a the CRISM gimbal C kernel is ready. Version 1 is generated once reconstructed spacecraft orientation and ephemeris are available.  Other values in the DDR are retrieved from the MOLA and TES data sets. Using the latitude and longitude of the surface intercept of each spatial pixel, TES bolometric albedo and thermal inertia are retrieved from global map products, and resampled into CRISM sensor space using nearest neighbor resampling. The same procedure is used to retrieve MOLA elevation, and the local slope magnitude and slope azimuth of the MOLA elevation model.  CRISM standard data products and the supplementary browse products are defined and described in greater detail in the Data Products Software Interface Specification and the Data Archive Software Interface Specification in the DOCUMENT directory.   Data :  There is only one data type associated with this volume, the Derived Data Records or DDRs. There are 14 layers in each DDR, all represented as 32-bit real numbers arranged in band-sequential format:  Solar incidence angle relative to areoid, at the same planetary radius as surface projection of pixel, units degrees.  Emission angle relative to areoid, at the same planetary radius as surface projection of pixel, units degrees.  Solar phase angle, units degrees.  Areocentric latitude, units degrees N.  Areocentric longitude, units degrees E.  Solar incidence angle relative to planetary surface as estimated using MOLA shape model, units degrees.  Emission angle relative to planetary surface as estimated using MOLA shape model, units degrees.  Slope magnitude, using MOLA shape model and reference ellipsoid, units degrees.  Slope azimuth, using MOLA shape model and reference ellipsoid, units degrees clockwise from N.  Elevation relative to MOLA datum, units kilometers.  TES thermal inertia, units J m^-2 K^-1 s^-0.5.  TES bolometric albedo, unitless.  Spare.  Spare.  Ancillary Data :  There are ancillary data provided with this dataset:  1. SPICE kernels, used to contruct observational geometry, are available in the GEOMETRY directory. See GEOMINFO.TXT for more details.  Coordinate System :  The cartographic coordinate system used for the CRISM data products conforms to the IAU planetocentric system with East longitudes being positive. The IAU2000 reference system for Mars cartographic coordinates and rotational elements was used for computing latitude and longitude coordinates.   Media/Format :  The CRISM archive will be made available online via Web and FTP servers. This will be the primary means of distribution. Therefore the archive will be organized as a set of virtual volumes, with each data set stored online as a single volume. As new data products are released they will be added to the volume's data directory, and the volume's index table will be updated accordingly. The size of the volume will not be limited by the capacity of the physical media on which it is stored; hence the term virtual volume. When it is necessary to transfer all or part of a data set to other media such as DVD for distribution or for offline storage, the virtual volume's contents will be written to the other media according to PDS policy, possibly dividing the contents among several physical volumes.
DATA_SET_RELEASE_DATE 3000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
START_TIME 2006-01-01T12:00:00.000Z
STOP_TIME N/A (ongoing)
MISSION_NAME MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER
MISSION_START_DATE 2005-08-12T12:00:00.000Z
MISSION_STOP_DATE N/A (ongoing)
TARGET_NAME MARS
TARGET_TYPE PLANET
INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID MRO
INSTRUMENT_NAME COMPACT RECONNAISSANCE IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR MARS
INSTRUMENT_ID CRISM
INSTRUMENT_TYPE IMAGING SPECTROMETER
NODE_NAME Geosciences
ARCHIVE_STATUS ARCHIVED_ACCUMULATING
CONFIDENCE_LEVEL_NOTE
Confidence Level Overview : The major sources of uncertainty in DDRs arise from uncertainties in instrument pointing knowledge, from coverage of the MOLA data set, and from the scale of the TES data.  The formal pointing uncertainty for the CRISM gimbal plane is 1 mrad each in the spacecraft yaw(z), roll(x), or pitch/gimbal(y) axes. The formal uncertainty in reconstructed spacecraft attitude is similar. Uncertainty in CRISM's gimbal attitude is negligible, about 0.006 mrad. The formal error in projection onto a surface location depends on the angle of the gimbal and typically is of order several hundreds of meters. Experience during operations suggests that the actual errors are smaller than expected formal errors, so that typical error in surface location is about 200 meters.  Latitude and longitude are described by the intersection of CRISM field of view with the MOLA shape model. Given the uncertainties in location of a point on the surface, expected uncertainty near the equator is of the order of 0.005 degrees. Uncertainties in incidence, emission, and phase angles relative to the areoid are similar.  Errors in incidence and emission angle relative to the MOLA shape model are dominated by the lower sampling density of the shape model. MOLA points are typically a few hundred meters apart. This compares to CRISM's sampling scale of 15 to 200 meters per spatial pixel, depending on instrument configuration. In areas of smooth topography the errors are small, but in areas with topography that is rough at scales less than a few hundred meters, uncertainty is several degrees. The same uncertainties apply to slope magnitude.  Errors in bolometric albedo and thermal inertia will have a large contribution from the different scales of the CRISM and TES data sets. The TES data from which these values are retrieved are sampled at 8 pixels per degree, yet depending on instrument configuration, the native spatial sampling of the CRSIM data set is 256-4096 pixels per degree. Thus in areas with heterogeneous surface properties, large errors in bolometric albedo and thermal inertia may occur.  DDR Versions :  Changes in the processing of DDRs are denoted by incrementing the software version, to preserve the significance of version 0 and version 1 DDRs representing predicted and reconstructed pointing.  Software version 1.8 was initially used and had the following known problems:  (1) Latitude, longitude, and elevation were calculated inaccurately south of 85 degrees south latitude.  (2) Slope magnitude and slope azimuth were calculated inaccurately.  (3) The layers purporting to be incidence and emission angles relative to the MOLA shape model were identical to incidence and emission angles relative to the areoid, being used as a placeholder.  (4) Local solar time was calculated incorrectly.  (5) The TES bolometric albedo and thermal inertia layers were unpopulated.  Software version 1.9 addressed each of the issues above as follows:  (1) Latitude, longitude, and elevation calculations south of 85 degrees south latitude were fixed by a code change to fix an incorrect data format to which MOLA polar products were being assigned.  (2) Slope magnitude and slope azimuth were calculations were repaired by fixing an arithmetic error.  (3) Incidence and emission angles relative to the MOLA shape model were derived and correctly populated in the appropriate layers.  (4) Local solar time was calculated correctly by repairing mathematical errors.  (5) The TES bolometric albedo and thermal inertia layers remain unpopulated. This will be remedied on upgrade to software version 1.10.  Known Issue with DDR Accuracy :  The only known major problem with DDRs generated using software version 1.9 is that TES bolometric albedo and thermal inertia layers remain unpopulated.   Review : This archival data set will be examined by a peer review panel prior to its acceptance by the Planetary Data System (PDS). The peer review will be conducted in accordance with PDS procedures.   Data Coverage and Quality : For each observation, every EDR is compared against frame-by-frame predictions of commanded instrument state. The results of the comparison are written as a data validation report that accompanies the EDRs for that observation.  In the case of a hardware or configuration discrepancy (shutter position, lamp status or level, pixel binning, frame rate, channel selection, power status of detectors), processing of the image data to RDR level does not occur in order to avoid introducing invalid results, and DDRs are not created. Also, missing frames or portions of frames are replaced with a value of 65535 (this cannot be a valid data value). That portion of the EDR is not further processed, and it also is propagated to a value of 65535 in all layers of the DDR.  Only a subset of instrument configurations represent 'scene' data, as indicated by the EDR keyword MRO:ACTIVITY_ID. Only scene data aimed at Mars' surface have corresponding DDRs.   Limitations : None.
CITATION_DESCRIPTION Murchie, S., Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars Derived Data Record, MRO-M-CRISM-6-DDR-V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2006.
ABSTRACT_TEXT This dataset is intended to include information on observation conditions, physical properties and coordinates of IR and VNIR data cubes from the CRISM instrument on MRO when the data cubes are pointed at Mars' surface. The information is mapped to the sensor space of non-map-projected data, EDRs and TRDRs.
PRODUCER_FULL_NAME SCOTT MURCHIE
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