Research

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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?

Doctoral Thesis: Spectral Imaging Simulations for Planetary Surface Exploration

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

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

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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.

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

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

E&SS Paper (Stabbins et al): Optimizing ExoMars Rover Remote Sensing Multispectral Science II: Choosing and Using Multispectral Filters for Dynamic Planetary Surface Exploration With Linear Discriminant Analysis

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Laboratory Simulations of the OROCHI Multispectral Multiview Imager for the Martian Moons eXploration Mission

I spent 2023 at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, where I joined the imaging team making preparation for the OROCHI and TENGOO cameras for the JAXA led MMX mission to Phobos. I worked on a laboratory simulator of the OROCHI multispectral multiview imager, tuning the performance to match that expected of the OROCHI flight model, and writing control and processing software to standarise the acquisition of multispectral reflectance data. This involved taking the simulator into the ISO-6 Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Centre at ISAS to image grains of asteroid Ryugu returned by the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission.

PEPS Paper (Stabbins & Kameda) (In Review): LOROS: “Laboratory Simulations of the Optical RadiOmeter composed of CHromatic Imagers (OROCHI) Experiment of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission”