residuals
Compiled by KD
Description
The routine residuals tests the landmarks to look for problems and gives reports about how well the landmarks were processed. In other words, residuals shows how well SPC performed. The reports that residuals outputs are listed in the Output section.
Input - files
PICTLIST.TXT - list of picture names generated by make_sumfiles
Optional Files
PICTLISTS - user-generated list of picture names, if this file exists, it is used instead of PICTLIST.TXT
Input - stdin
- enter 3 values (px,km,km)
- The value of the pixel residual limit. Images and maplets are flagged for a pixel residual limit greater than this.
- The value of the linear residual beyond which images and maplets are flagged.
The max scale (km/px) that sets the scale for the histogram at the end of PICINFO.TXT.
10, 0.01, 0.01
Output
check.txt - List of landmarks and overlaps for landmarks whose linear residual is greater than the user-specified limit.
EMPTY.TXT - lithos seed file for batch deletion of landmarks which are not contained in any pictures or limbs.
FLATLIST.TXT - List of flat maps (landmarks containing no topography).
LMKVECS.TXT - Landmark vectors for every landmark contained in LMRKLIST.TXT.
MAPCHK.TXT - List of maplets whose difference between predicted and observed pixel/line locations in attached images is greater than a user-specified limit, or who have two or fewer overlaps attached to them.
MAPRES.TXT - Maplet resolution information for maplets contained in at least one picture or limb.
New_Limbs.in - lithos seed file to attach map to limbs for every landmark contained in LMRKLIST.TXT.
no_update.txt - List of landmarks whose associated pictures are not listed by increasing mission time in the .LMK file.
PRUNE.TXT - List of landmarks for which the number of pictures in which they are contained exceeds the default limit of 500, or the user-specified limit, PRNLM, set within INIT_LITHOS.TXT.
RANGES_SOLVED.TXT - Date and range information for each picture listed in PICTLISTS.TXT or PICTLIST.TXT.
veto.txt - lithos seed file to detach from landmarks and limbs a map with a linear residual greater than the user-specified limit.
Example of MAPINFO.TXT
Example of a single landmark in RESIDUALS.TXT
What a Bad & Fixed Image Looks Like
Qualitative Checks
The routine residuals is not the only way to check how well SPC performed. One can simply observe the maplets generated. The information below is what to look for when visually inspecting a maplet to judge its quality.
- Qualitative checks are important to verify that the quantitative error estimates are believable
Render a single maplet, or a DEM synthesized by a collection of maplets, at the same geometry & illumination conditions as the images themselves
- Do all the features in the images appear in the DEM ?
- Are the smallest discernible features in the images, e.g., boulders, craters etc. visible in the DEM as well ?
- Is the relative albedo solution such that the relative brightness of adjacent image features matches that of the DEM ?
- Are the heights solution such that the length and overall appearance of the shadows in the DEM matches that of the image ?
How Uncertainties are Introduced in the Data
- Main types of uncertainties:
- S/C trajectory, camera pointing, image timestamp
- Manifest themselves mostly in the projection of image template onto the surface. Corrected by global geometry solution
- Image noise, artifacts, smear, overall image quality
- Manifest themselves in predicted image template brightness and in its fit to the extracted image brightness
- Photometric model and reflectance function models
Show up in slopes & heights integration
Poor choice of a-priori parameters & data weights
- Evident at end of each estimation step; data won’t fit well
- S/C trajectory, camera pointing, image timestamp
- Often above contributions are correlated; individual contributors may not be separated until many processing steps have been taken