Create new landmark

(lithos Main Menu Option C. Create new landmark)

Description

This Main Menu option is used to create a new landmark. The location of this landmark will depend upon one of three inputs:

• a pixel/lin location in a picture
• a latitude west longitude on a body
• a pixel/line location in a maplet/bigmap

Once you create a landmark, it will not have any images included, and will have no topography.

• To add topography - use Main Menu Option B. Get heights from surrounding map

• To load images,
  1. Save the maplet
  2. Load it again
  3. Choose option 'y'

Suboptions

When you choose Option C. Create new landmark from the Main Menu, you will see this set of prompts:

Main Menu: Q 0123O IUCRSG NVAMBX DEPL FZH? c
 >c
 Input 6-character landmark name. [Q]
TEST01
 pixlinpic (p) or ltdlng (l) or map p/l (m)?
l
 Input ltd, wlng (deg)
0 0
 Enter scale (km/px), qsz
.001 49


 Current landmark = NONE
Main Menu: Q 0123O IUCRSG NVAMBX DEPL FZH?

pixlinpic (p) - Enter 'p' to select the location of the center of the landmark from the location of a pixel/line value in a picture.

1. Enter a picture name (12 characters).

2. lithos will ask for a pixel/line location from the image.

   • '0, 0' would be the upper left pixel/line location of the image

ltdlng (l) - Enter 'l' (lowercase "L") to select the location of the center of the landmark from latitude/longitude.

1. Enter the latitude/longitude, where the longitude is west longitude.

map p/l (m) - Enter 'm' to select the location of the center of the landmark from the location of a maplet/bigmap.

1. Enter the maplet/bigmap name (6 characters).
2. Enter the pixel/line location.
   • '0, 0' selects the upper left of the maplet/bigmap

After you have input values for either p, l or m:

Enter scale (km/px), qsz

1. Enter the GSD in km - .001 is 1m
2. Enter the Q size - 49 (standard procedure)

(Compiled by JRW)

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