[Gdal-dev] Will GDAL do other planets?

[Paul Kelly]

Hamish wrote:
>>I haven't researched this yet - maybe this is already supported, but
>>  I can think of some reasons to have GDAL load,query,reproject
>>  MARS or other planetary data.    Not so much data formats (although
>>  that would be nice) but rather geospecific support (radius, 
>>eccentricity, etc).
>>
> Others have done the same using GDAL+PROJ.4 & r.in.bin in GRASS, maybe 
> the old mailing list threads have some info for you. Unfortunately "Mars" 
> is hard to do in the search engine.. bloody thing translates into French.
> None the less, some links to mailing list threads follow which may be 
> informative. Maybe Paul remembers more?

As far as I remember everything that needed to be fixed to model Mars in 
the GRASS projection system, was done.
I remember too projecting some Mars elevation data onto a spherical 
globe in SG3d when I was testing the support, and it looked really well. 
Not sure if I saved it though.

Paul