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Representing planetary terrains into a virtual reality environment for space exploration

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3D terrain representation has been widely exploited in a number of applications to depict terrestrial surface simulations. Nevertheless, it could also be successfully employed by aerospace industry to represent planetary soils, such as the Lunar and the Martian ones. In this paper, we are discussing the results of an application developed at Thales Alenia Space—Italy and aiming at building a detailed 3D model of such terrains for space exploration purposes.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Torino, C.so Svizzera 185, 10149, Torino, Italy

    L. Piovano & M. Brunello

  2. Thales Alenia Space-Italy, Strada Antica di Collegno 253, 10146, Torino, Italy

    L. Rocci & V. Basso

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Piovano, L., Brunello, M., Rocci, L. et al. Representing planetary terrains into a virtual reality environment for space exploration. Pattern Recognit. Image Anal. 21, 549 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054661811020878

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