Machine Learning Tools for Automatic Mapping of Martian Landforms
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The Mars planetary missions have produced vast stores of science data. The authors describe machine-learning methods and tools they've used to automate geomorphic mapping of Mars from archived data.
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Index Terms:
machine learning, Mars
Citation:
Tomasz Stepinski, Ricardo Vilalta, Soumya Ghosh, "Machine Learning Tools for Automatic Mapping of Martian Landforms," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 100-106, Nov./Dec. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIS.2007.114