The OpenCraterTool is a planetary mapping aid provided as Open Source plugin for QGIS. It helps meaasuring impact crater size-frequency distributions, and estimate planetary surface ages.
The paper describing the tool is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2023.105687
The OpenCraterTool is now listed in the official QGIS repository:
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/opencratertool/
Its code is available on GitHub
The GMAP Winter School 2023 will take place online, semi-synchronously in the period
30 January 2023 – 3 February 2023
Announcements, updates, and registration on:
https://www.planetarymapping.eu
Registration will open on:
15 November 2023
Brand-new documentation for the Mappy QGIS plugin has been recently published and hosted by ReadTheDocs.
Development of the plugin is done over the GitHub repository. If you find any issue with the documentation or the plugin itself get in touch by opening a new issue.
The next Planetary Mapping Winter School will be held online 7th – 11th February 2022. The school will be dedicated to the process of creating planetary geologic maps on the Moon, Mercury and Mars.
The registration is now open. The registration deadline is January 31st 2022
The registrations is free. We will try to accomodate as many participants as possible, while keeping a reasonable participant/instructor ratio.
The school will cover all the topics that are necessary to produce high-quality planetary cartography:
An introductory knowledge of geoscience is helpful.
Accessing materials from the previous edition of the school is also advised, beforehand.
The online session will be on Zoom. Some events will be hosted over the GMAP Discord Server. Upon registration to the school please use the same email you are using for your Zoom account.
Access to materials will be provided using Indico platform (the same of the registration), kindly supported by the Observatory of Paris. Data will be hosted on cloud platforms and they will be made available for download to participants in due time.
For up-to-date information please check https://www.planetarymapping.eu/
If you have any question or issue, please reach out to info@planetarymapping.eu
Submission deadline is 31 May 2022.
Remote Sensing journal will be hosting a new Special Issue entitled “Planetary Geologic Mapping and Remote Sensing” edited by Prof. Dr. Kaichang Di, Prof. Dr. Long Xiao and Dr. Jessica Flahaut.
Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
More info at the dedicated page.
We would be happy to know any project that was inspired or supported by GMAP either thanks to the first Planetary Mapping Winter School or by our tools or datasets. Recording community-driven project is important for us to show the impact of our work on planetary enthusiasts and professional scientists.
https://forms.gle/czcoQwCdUF4uv8oz8
It is of great importance to us to track all the projects that have been supported in these years by GMAP activities in any form. And this is the best way to show us your support!
We know there is still much to do, starting from the upcoming next-year Winter School we are just starting to organize, but if you believe GMAP helped you with your personal mapping project, please consider taking one minute to fill in this reporting form:
Also, if you did not consider yet to start or perform your mapping project with GMAP, please reach out via this link.
In this seminar, part of the LPI Seminar Series 2021, Carolyn van der Bogert describes the development, update, and application of the lunar cratering chronology and gives examples of how this powerful tool has changed our view of the Moon and the Solar System.
The lunar cratering chronology is a tool for connecting lunar geological events to an absolute time scale, and allows a deeper assessment of the geological history of the Moon, Earth, and even other Solar System bodies. Its application allows geostratigraphic maps to be fit into an absolute time scale to produce chronostratigraphic maps, and is thus an important aspect of the mapping of planetary bodies.
Watch the recorded seminar on Youtube, recorded on June 17th, 2021.
If you want to know more about how crater chronology works in practice have also a look at the Planetary Mapping Winter School 2021 practical activity “S5 – Age determination through crater counts on Lunar geological maps”, available here after free registration.
The datasets used during the first Planetary Mapping Winter School were made publicly available for anybody wanting to replicate the practical activities. The related video material, recorded live during the winter school sessions, is already available on this page, which we recently updated with the links to the respective datasets.
The Winter School material is made freely accessible to all the registered users of the europlanet-gmap.eu website. The registration is free and open to everyone. Feel free to register here.
Carolyn van der Bogert and the GMAP team recently presented a poster titled “Geological Mapping of Lunar Resources and Landing Sites” at Space Resources Week 2021.
Remotely sensed data of the lunar surface and modern planetary mapping techniques can provide the right tools for identifying potential resources and for landing site characterization. Discover more details in the poster.
As a GMAP activity within the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure, we provide community support to planetary mappers wanting to undertake the challenging task of producing such maps.
We finalized the mappy plugin to simplify the creation of geological maps and it is now available on the QGIS plugin repository. This means that now the plugin can be easily installed from the QGIS plugin manager. Just remember to enable “Show also experimental plugins” under plugins->Manage and Install->Settings. More install info in the README.
The mappy plugin has been designed to provide simplified methods for generating polygonal layers starting from contacts and points, making it possible to overcome the annoying issue of directly editing polygons when producing geological cartography.
Find out more information on the Github Page. The plugin is still experimental, so if you try it out let us know any problem you might encounter on the Issues page.
Europlanet 2024 RI has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149
