gmap - qgis training material: Ingenii Basin (moon)

• Main Authors: Claudia Pöhler, Carolyn van der Bogert, Luca Penasa, Riccardo Pozzobon
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Aitken; Lola; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6675775; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6675775

This dataset part of the Geology and Planetary Mapping Winter School 2022 featuring Ingenii Basin as a study area. Ingenii Basin is located on the lunar farside centred at 33.7°S 163.5°E within the South Pole-Aitken basin. The floor of Ingenii Basin is filled with mare materials with the basin having a diameter of 282 km. We compiled a beginners – intermediate level training package for the area. The package includes the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Wide Angle Camera (WAC) global mosaic (Speyerer et al., 2011) as a basemap, the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and SELenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) Kaguya merged lunar digital elevation model (DEM) (Barker et al., 2016) and spectral data in the form of a clementine Ultraviolet/Visible (UVVIS) warped color ratio mosaic (Lucey et al., 2000). The data is cut to the area of interest and a training project is set up for QGIS. The training package is designed as a group exercise with four adjacent tiles covering the entirety of Ingenii basin. For beginners the aim is to create a low scale map of the area where the basin rim is distinguished from the basin floor and mare unit as well as detecting smaller craters that exist in the area. These units should then be put in a stratigraphic relationship based on superposition, degradation state and embayment. For intermediate mappers this task can be extended to include the swirl features and finding potential areas for crater size frequency distribution measurement to determine absolute ages for a more detailed stratigraphy.