SpecSim Overview

Spectral Imaging Simulations for Planetary Surface Exploration

In preparation for the landing of Rosalind Franklin at Oxia Planum, I’ve been developing software to simulate the imaging chain of PanCam. Given a description of an environment, in terms of topography and material distribution, and skylight illumination conditions, the software answers the question of what will PanCam see?

:blue_book: Doctoral Thesis: Spectral Imaging Simulations for Planetary Surface Exploration

:page_with_curl: EPSC 2018 Poster: Optimising Image Acquisition and Post-Processing with the ExoMars PanCam Wide Angle Camera Simulator

:page_with_curl: LPSC 2018 Poster: Simulating the Image Chain of the ExoMars 2020 Rover PanCam Wide Angle Cameras

SpecSim Overview

Geochemistry to Geology for ExoMars 2022: Visible to Near-Infrared Spectral Variability

My work with the Planetary Surfaces group at the Natural History Museum had the broad objective of preparing for exploitation of the multispectral sampling that the PanCam Wide Angle Cameras afford, by incorporating the prior knowledge of the landing site mineralogy, obtained from orbit, into the analysis process.

AGU Presentation Snapshot

:movie_camera: Presentation at Machine Learning for Planetary Science session, AGU 2022: Choosing and Using Multispectral Filters for Data-Limited Dynamic Planetary Surface Exploration with Linear Discriminant Analysis

:page_facing_up: E&SS Paper (Grindrod et al): Optimizing Exomars 2022 Rover Remote Sensing Multispectral Science: Cross-Rover Comparison using Laboratory and Orbital Data

:page_with_curl: BPSC 2020 Poster: Hematite through the eyes of the ExoMars 2020 Rover Rosalind Franklin: Simulating mineral identification with the PanCam WAC multispectral filters