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Figure A. Super-Resolution Restoration (SRR)

Figure A. Super-Resolution Restoration (SRR)
Figure A. Super-Resolution Restoration (SRR) Comparisons of portions of map-projected HiRISE image PSP_001513_1655 (top) to SRR processing of 8 HiRISE images (bottom), covering regions near the Spirit rover at “home plate” in Gusev Crater. Boulders are more clearly defined (left) and the rover tracks over home plate are prominent (right) in the SRR images. However, as described below, the “before” images do not show the full resolution of single HiRISE images—see Figure D. Also, note that Spirit rover had not yet arrived at home plate when PSP_001513_1655 was acquired, so it wasn’t SRR that made the tracks appear, it was the rover actually driving over the surface. Other features are sharper in the SRR image, but by how much? UCL