This document covers the implementation details and challenges/questions for the integration of the GDAL library which allows for the processing, accessing, and archiving of NASA's planetary datasets.
- integrate GDAL into our simulator codebase
- automatically get relevant datasets (mars, moon, earth)
- handles multiple datasets simultaneously (high-res local, low-res global)
- handles multiple projections simultaneously (polar, equirectangular, etc.)
- able to load multiple types of data:
- height maps
- color maps
- false-color (infrared etc.)
- atmospheric data (at different levels)