MarsImage documentation

MarsImage is a python package to process Mars rover images hosted on the PDS.

Features

• efficiently download rover images from the NASA Planetary Data System

• open PDS images and access their metadata (including rover localizations)

• convert PDS images to .DNG or .TIFF format with rich exif metadata

• color calibrate rover images to approximate what the human eye would see on Mars

• preprocess images for panorama or photogrammetry workflows

Supported Missions and instruments

Mission	Supported Instruments	Supported Product types
Curiosity (MSL)	Mastcam, Mahli, Mardi, Navcam, Hazcam	DRXX, RAD_, MXY_
Perseverance (Mars2020)	planned for future release	-

Installation

MarsImage is available on PyPI (Python Package Index). It is recommended to install this package in a dedicated virtual environment, then install it with pip:

pip install marsimage

If you want to use this package in a Jupyter environment, you will need some extra-dependencies:

pip install marsimage[jupyter]

To upgrade to the latest version simply to:

pip install --upgrade marsimage

External libraries disclaimer

This package requires a few externals dependencies:

• PiDNG

• ExifTool

• Raw Therapee

Credits, issues and change requests to these libraries should be reported to their original developers.

Note

Only Raw Therapee needs to be installed manually by the user (see below).

PiDNG

This sub-module is mainly copy-pasted from PiDNG developed by schoolpost and available on PyPI. Here, it was patched to fix missing tags and remove LJ92 compression library (which requires a C compiler).

Details of the patch can be found in: pidng/0001-Fix-missing-tags-and-remove-LJ92-compression.patch

• Version patched: 4.0.9

• License: MIT

ExifTool

To simplify the install for the user, exiftool is bundled with MarsImage and should work out-of-the box on windows, linux and macos.

Note

A locally installation of perl is required on linux and macOS.

• Currently version bundled: 13.17

• License: GPLv3

Raw Therapee

To allow automatic TIFF conversion of the DNG images via MarsImage.rawtherapee_convert() you will need to install Raw Therapee locally. The install procedure is available on their website, then it should be automatically detected by MarsImage.

The expected location of rawtherapee-cli should be :

• C:\Program Files\RawTherapee\X.Y\ on Windows

• /usr/local/bin/ on macOS (and RawTherapee.app in /Applications)

• Anywhere in the $PATH on Linux

If you don’t install it to its default location, you can provide a $RAWTHERAPEE_CLI environment variable to specify the location of the rawtherapee-cli entrypoint.

• Tested version: 5.11

• License: GPLv3

About this project

This project was developed by Simeon Schmauß during his internship funded by Osuna and under the supervision of Stéphane Le Mouélic (LPG) and Benoît Seignovert (Osuna). It is still under active development. The source code is available in Nantes Université Gitlab and distributed under a GPLv3 public license.