Lunar landing map12/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Did you know you can publish your own Elevation layers to ArcGIS Online via ArcGIS Pro? I was helped by this blog to set-up and publish my own. Now, to really make the Moon craters shine, it’s time for the Elevation layer. Or, use the share web-tile-layer option and let ArcGIS Pro handle the conversion for you. Manually reproject or georeference all layers to an Earth based coordinate system (I chose this method as it personally gave me a better-quality map). If you’re going to give this a go, it is worth noting that global scenes in ArcGIS Online only support tile layers in Earth coordinate systems (Web Mercator or supported GCS: WGS 84 or CGCS 2000). Watch the tile services instantly appear through a massive range of zoom levels. The imagery was then shared to ArcGIS Online by publishing the map from ArcGIS Pro as a Hosted Raster Tile Service. Lunar Imagery - Acting as the Basemap to our 3D map, this will be published as a hosted tile service from ArcGIS Pro.Īn Elevation layer - used to create the 3D relief in the mapįirstly, to create the Lunar basemap I combined a mosaic of single and multi-band imagery raster data. Usefully, Pro has coordinate systems for all the major planetary bodies and objects in the Solar System (!). I used ArcGIS Pro for all my imagery preparation. I’ll walk you through how I prepared the Moon imagery in ArcGIS Pro, added the all-important elevation service, and put it all together in a 3D map in ArcGIS Online. The Moon imagery comes via the instruments on board the NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, which is beaming down a whopping 155 GB per day of data down to Earth each day (that’s 55 Terabyte per year, as much as would be required to store every book ever written!). ![]() NASA share the processed (as well as raw) imagery, so we don’t even need to make any major adjustments to start using it. This means that there is a wealth of stunningly detailed imagery available for everyone. Since the 1990’s, NASA has been a leading advocate for providing full and open access to all of their spectacular data. Planetary imagery data is relatively easy to acquire. One small step…to find dataĭata wrangling is the first step of any mapping project, and for my map I needed to find some high-quality imagery data. Interested in how you too can take your own first steps beyond Earth-based GIS? Read on to learn how and explore the exciting frontiers of Planetary GIS. In this map it is possible to explore the weird and wonderful lunar surface and zoom in to investigate incredible high-resolution imagery from each of the Apollo manned landing sites. As a map and space nerd myself (Remote sensing WOOOOT!), I saw this anniversary as the perfect opportunity to create a 3D map of the moon. This momentous event pushed our horizon further out into the solar system, sparking a wave of further manned landings and exploration. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing and with it humanity’s first tentative steps onto another planetary body. ![]()
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