Support for Rosetta data

ASP recently gained support for creating meshes of an arbitrary environment based on pictures. See https://stereopipeline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/multi_stereo.html. The tools are part of the daily build, only for Linux, available from https://github.com/NeoGeographyToolkit/StereoPipeline/releases.

I must say that while the software is functional, and I did spend quite a time testing it, I only tested it for International Space Station images, not for a planetary body. You are welcome to give it a try, if you wish.

There are a lot of packages out there for doing photogrammetry of non-planetary bodies. See here: https://all3dp.com/1/best-photogrammetry-software/

I worked a bit with Colmap and I liked what it does, and I heard good things about AliceVision. These require a GPU. ASP's software does not, and it also gives more control over optimizing camera parameters, and in time will be integrated with the other ASP tools. 

In short, this is a bit outside our usual area of focus, but I plan to have ASP grow in that direction, time and funding permitting (and this year there will be some ground-level terrain work which will help with that).

To add to the previous, it appears that ISIS supports some Rosetta instruments:

https://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/Application/presentation/Tabbed/rososiris2isis/rososiris2isis.html

https://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/Application/presentation/Tabbed/rosvirtis2isis/rosvirtis2isis.html

I did not try these. Ideally these create some .cub files. Then, likely ASP's usual bundle_adjust and parallel_stereo tools can be used, followed by point2mesh to create a mesh. For a somewhat flat area (there won't be many of those) maybe point2dem can be used with some radii (--semi-major-axis and  --semi-minor-axis) compatible with comet radius in meters. 

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