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Multi-mapper Projects: Collaborative Mercury Mapping

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Planetary Cartography and GIS

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Taking up the challenge of mapping the entire surface of a planetary body may present different levels of difficulty. The effort and time required for such a project depends mainly on the available data quality and workforce. The resolution and coverage of the basemaps provided as data sets by the space missions determine the highest acceptable mapping scale and the possible extent of a project, respectively. The larger the mapping scale, the longer the work. If many mappers are involved, this can considerably decrease the time needed for completing a global map by producing a series of regional maps. However, this also increases the risk of mismatches between the mapped regions. In order to better analyse the complexity of such a plan, here we examine the case of the Mercury 1:3M-scale global mapping project.

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Acknowledgements

The mapping review presented in this chapter was possible thanks to the effort of many people that are contributing to the 1:3M-scale geologic mapping of Mercury, in particular: Lorenza Giacomini, Laura Guzzetta, Alexander M. Lewang, Christopher C. Malliband, Paolo Mancinelli, Alessandro Mosca, David Pegg, Jack Wright, Luigi Ferranti, Harald Hiesinger, Matteo Massironi, Cristina Pauselli, Pasquale Palumbo, and David A. Rothery, who also revised this chapter. I thank Dr. R. Aileen Yingst, who gave precious suggestions for improving the chapter content. I gratefully acknowledge funding from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) under ASI-INAF agreement 2017-47-H.0.

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Galluzzi, V. (2019). Multi-mapper Projects: Collaborative Mercury Mapping. In: Hargitai, H. (eds) Planetary Cartography and GIS. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62849-3_9

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