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Rock Shadow Counter (ROSCO)

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Overview

Rock Shadow Counter (ROSCO) is a suite of software tools developed at JPL for the purpose of characterizing the rockiness of the planetary surfaces in high resolution aerial/orbital images such as HiRISE images from MRO. The software has tools and workflow for sharpening input images, detecting rocks in the sharpened images, visualizing outputs, registering output data to a coordinate system, and creating raster maps derived from the detected rocks.