NASA's Lunar QuickMap

Astrogeology, Asteroids, Robots, Space Flight & Extraterrestrial Matters / Lunar Activities

ACT-REACT-QuickMap provides an easy-to-use yet powerful web interface for map related products. Designed with the end-user in mind QuickMap offers rapid access to data without the tedium of handling file format details and data ingestion and archive structures.

For NASA satellite missions, and when used in conjunction with PIPE/MSHELL, it provides mission progress monitoring in the form of:

1. Global and regional mosaics as the result of specific data collection campaigns;
2. Digital Elevation Models;
3. Instrument coverage views (where observations have taken place;
4. Location overlays, e.g.  latitude and longitude grid, recent feature images, sites of interest;
5. Special products, e.g. master target collection status and master target mosaics;
6. Satellite position (based on JPL/NAIF/SPICE kernels), and automatic tracking of present position.
7. Ability to validate products and fuse data both within a mission and across servers. 

 For commercial applications it can be used by aerial remote sensing service providers that fly sensors in either planes or drones supporting specific customer needs, e.g. check the QuickMap tab in our partner VineView located in Napa Valley.

QuickMap has similarities to other web based applications such as Google Maps. But it differs by offering:

• Rapid data updates supporting mission progress;
• On-the-fly product generation. Pre-caching of all possible products is not required;
• Leverages on PIPE architecture, for capabilities of data ingestion, publishing and analysis (which has been proven over many NASA/NOAA/DoD Missions);
• Mission Proven - QuickMap is directly supporting a number of NASA Missions.