• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2007년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2007
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• pp.333-336
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• 2007

SELENE, a Japanese lunar mission, has been launched this year. There are large volumes of images that were already archived and will be archived by missions such as SELENE. Automatic image analysis systems, which extract useful information from large amounts of data, are now required. The authors propose Lunar Surface GIS, which archives lunar surface information collected by lunar orbiting spacecraft and conducts geological analysis automatically. This system includes automatic crater detection, automatic age determination, and lava thickness estimation methods. In this paper, methods for automatically determining the age and estimating the lava thickness of lunar mare are described. The lunar surface age was determined by analyzing data of detected crater size and number using a crater chronology method. Lava thickness was estimated by the extent of the overlying material around the crater as well as the composition of underlying terrain units. In this result, the age map at Mare Crisium suggests the mare had been formed 3.0-3.7 b.y. ago. The lava thickness result suggests the thickest part of the mare is distributed around the center of the mare. The Lunar Surface GIS can produce a geological map, age map, and mare lava thickness map, for example.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2003년도 한국우주과학회보 제12권2호
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• pp.85-85
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• 2003

We examined the hypothesis that the crater formation rate exhibits periodicity, employing data sets of Grieve (1991), Moon et al. (2001), and the Earth Impact Database (2002; DB02). DB02 is known to supercede previous compilations in terms of its accuracy and precision of the ages; it is the first time that this database has been used for periodicity analysis. For data sets comprising impact structures with D$\geq$5km (and also those with $\geq$20km), there is no convincing evidence for periodicities in the crater ages, according to our Fourier analysis. However, we detected two peaks at 16.1Myr and 34.7Myr for craters with D$\geq$30km; we confirm that the age distribution of impact craters with D$\geq$45km has dominant power at 16.1Myr. Thus, we may conjecture a probable periodic shower of Earth impactors with sizes d$\geq$1.5km. In addition, we found that the selection of data sets, the lower limits on the ages and diameters of impact craters, as well as the accuracy and precision of the ages, all constitute crucial factors in reconstructing the impact cratering history of the Earth.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.269-282
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• 2003

Grieve(1991), Moon et al.(2001), Earth Impact Database(2002; DB02) 등 세 가지 충돌구 DB를 이용해서 미행성 지구충돌 사건의 주기성 여부를 조사했다. 특히 DB02는 과거 사용됐던 데이터베이스들에 비해서 연령 측정오차가 크게 향상되었으며, 이를 이용한 주기분석 발표는 이번이 처음이다. DB02(나이 $t{\leq}250Myr$ 및 $t{\leq}150Myr$, 나이오차 ${\Delta}t{\leq}{\pm}10Myr$)에 대 한 Fourier 분석 결과, $D{\geq}5km$와 $D{\geq}20km$인 표본의 경우, 주기성이 검출되지 않았다. 그러나 $D{\geq}30km$인 표본인 경우 16.1Myr와 34.7Myr에서 두 개의 피크가 나타났고, $D{\geq}45km$인 표본은 16.1Myr부근에서 강한 파워를 보였다. 이로부터 우리는 $d{\geq}1.5km$인 천체의 주기적인 지구 충돌 가능성을 고려할 수 있으며, 충돌구 나이의 정밀도는 물론 t와 D의 범위, 그리고 데이터베이스의 선택이 미행성의 지구충돌의 역사를 재구성하는데 중요한 변수로 작용한다는 사실을 확인했다.