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Article Dans Une Revue MethodsX Année : 2019

Semi-automated crater depth measurements

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Impact cratering is a major process driving planetary landscape evolution. Statistics of craters spatial density is extensively used to date planetary surfaces. Their degradation state and morphometry are also key parameters to understand surface processes. To exploit the increasing coverage of digital terrain models (DEM) on Mars at high spatial resolution, we propose a semi-automated pipeline for crater depth measurement based on coupled optical images and DEM. From a craters map shapefile coupled with a co-registered DEM, we propose to measure crater depth as the difference between the 60 th percentile of elevation values on the edge of the crater and the 3 rd percentile value of the elevations within the crater. We present here this method and its calibration. Aside to this paper, we provide a simple python code of this pipeline. This method can rapidly produce crater depth dataset big enough to be interpreted statistically. We provide solid tests on the precision of measured crater depth. Especially, we show that minimal elevation value within a crater, sometime used as crater floor elevation, is a far less precise approximation than a low percentile of elevation.
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hal-02639459 , version 1 (28-05-2020)

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Sylvain Breton, Cathy Quantin-Nataf, Thomas Bodin, Damien Loizeau, Matthieu Volat, et al.. Semi-automated crater depth measurements. MethodsX, 2019, 6, pp.2293-2304. ⟨10.1016/j.mex.2019.08.007⟩. ⟨hal-02639459⟩
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