Library Cataloging
Out of scope, but I have to mention the work done by my co-workers. The Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (LTO) Series are now online. There will be change to the website over the next several weeks. Currently, the last image option available is the "click here to request a high-res image (Requires JPEG 2000 viewer)" We will be replacing this line with a direct link to the JPEG 2000 map image. The Web team will be replacing the link at the rate of 5-10 per day depending on the internet traffic.The Lunar Photo of the Day gives the work a glowing review.
- Cataloging Atlases
Image via WikipediaI'm wondering, now that Atlases is a genre term (as it should be) what will the subject headings for world atlases be? Earth $vAtlases maybe? I also just noticed the difference between topographic maps and physical maps. The later...
- Lpi Oai
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI : MPOW) now has a static OAI file thanks to the folks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We have included in the file all LPI resources available as full-text no matter where they exist on the Web....
- Lunar Maps
Some more lunar maps have been scanned and made available on the Web by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (MPOW).The Lunar Equatorial Zone Mosaics (LEMC) Series four sheets by the U.S. Army Topographic Command from the late 1960s are 1:2,500,000 Mercator...
- Lpi Contribution Series
The contribution series at the Lunar and Planetary Institute now has an RSS feed.To document the activities of the visiting and staff scientists and other work supported by the Institute, this formal series called "Lunar and Planetary Institute Contributions",...
- Lunar Maps
Nothing to do with cataloging, a project from where I work, the Lunar & Planetary Institute. There is now an update to the Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon. Annotations for each Atlas image have been added as well as some improved...
Library Cataloging
Online Lunar Maps
Out of scope, but I have to mention the work done by my co-workers. The Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (LTO) Series are now online. There will be change to the website over the next several weeks. Currently, the last image option available is the "click here to request a high-res image (Requires JPEG 2000 viewer)" We will be replacing this line with a direct link to the JPEG 2000 map image. The Web team will be replacing the link at the rate of 5-10 per day depending on the internet traffic.The Lunar Photo of the Day gives the work a glowing review.
Once again, quietly and without fanfare, the Lunar & Planetary Institute has delivered a magnificent collection of rare lunar maps for our daily use. The Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps - the absolutely best lunar maps ever map - are 1:250,000 scale Apollo Metric photos overprinted with accurate topographic contours at 100 m vertical intervals. LPI has released digitized versions of 215 LTOs at 4 resolutions: a browse image; a 72 dpi, 2.7 MB image; a 150 dpi, 10 MB image; and a high res image that is so big you have to request LPI puts it on a ftp server for you. I browsed through many images (and already downloaded 3 of the 150 dpi ones - I need that res to read all the contours) to remind myself of what they show. At the top left corner of the index map shown above is a small piece of 41-A4 map of the Beer and Feuille area southwest of Archimedes that gives a degraded view of the large scale and contour density. As the coverage map shows, only the areas under the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 flight paths had stereo coverage allowing topography to be derived by photogrammetry. But this area includes many interesting features, including the rugged dome Cauchy Tau, which is seen to be 342 m high, quite a bit taller than the previous best estimate of 149 m derived from the less accurate photometric method. Most of these LTO maps were published in 1974, so 30 years later, enjoy them and thank LPI for their tremendous effort in digitizing and placing these treasures online!
- Cataloging Atlases
Image via WikipediaI'm wondering, now that Atlases is a genre term (as it should be) what will the subject headings for world atlases be? Earth $vAtlases maybe? I also just noticed the difference between topographic maps and physical maps. The later...
- Lpi Oai
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI : MPOW) now has a static OAI file thanks to the folks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We have included in the file all LPI resources available as full-text no matter where they exist on the Web....
- Lunar Maps
Some more lunar maps have been scanned and made available on the Web by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (MPOW).The Lunar Equatorial Zone Mosaics (LEMC) Series four sheets by the U.S. Army Topographic Command from the late 1960s are 1:2,500,000 Mercator...
- Lpi Contribution Series
The contribution series at the Lunar and Planetary Institute now has an RSS feed.To document the activities of the visiting and staff scientists and other work supported by the Institute, this formal series called "Lunar and Planetary Institute Contributions",...
- Lunar Maps
Nothing to do with cataloging, a project from where I work, the Lunar & Planetary Institute. There is now an update to the Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon. Annotations for each Atlas image have been added as well as some improved...