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Correction of Mars Colour Camera images for identification of spectral classes


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1 Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad 380 015, India
 

Mars Colour Camera on-board the Mars Orbital Mission makes use of a Bayer pattern detector. Spectral response of RGB (red, green and blue) pixels of Bayer detector shows large overlap which reduces the spectral information content of the image. In the present paper, a simple method is suggested to correct the data for spectral overlap. It is shown that correction process significantly increases the spectral information content of the image and enhances the ability of the sensor to identify different target types like dust clouds and water ice clouds.

Keywords

Bayer-Pattern Filters, Dust Clouds, Ice Clouds, Mars Colour Camera, Spectral Overlap.
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Authors

Kurian Mathew
Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad 380 015, India
A. S. Arya
Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad 380 015, India
Harish Seth
Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad 380 015, India
S. Manthira Moorthi
Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad 380 015, India
P. N. Babu
Space Applications Center, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad 380 015, India

Abstract


Mars Colour Camera on-board the Mars Orbital Mission makes use of a Bayer pattern detector. Spectral response of RGB (red, green and blue) pixels of Bayer detector shows large overlap which reduces the spectral information content of the image. In the present paper, a simple method is suggested to correct the data for spectral overlap. It is shown that correction process significantly increases the spectral information content of the image and enhances the ability of the sensor to identify different target types like dust clouds and water ice clouds.

Keywords


Bayer-Pattern Filters, Dust Clouds, Ice Clouds, Mars Colour Camera, Spectral Overlap.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi06%2F1158-1164