Assessing possible typographic errors in Souness catalog

In the Souness et al. 2012 paper, a catalog is presented with the various glacier-like-forms identified.

In my analysis, I assume a constant channel width, which is not always a good assumption, and in a few cases, there are duplicates, or what appears to be a possible typographic error. There are only a few out of the 1309 which are likely to be affected.

I have identified some of these in the spreadsheet at this link.

I show the count of Souness GLFs by the regions I used earlier:

Filtergraph link: filtergraph.com/4134840

There are only relatively few that look like they have a typographical error, for example Souness 359, and Souness 1300:

Red dot shows 'head', white 'centre' and dark blue 'terminus'

S1117 and S1301 are duplicates and S1300 appears to contain a typo

I decided to go through systematically, and look at Souness objects that either looked odd in shape visually, or had a distance between the 'centre' recorded by Souness and the middle of the channel that was more than the channel width.


I below detail the individual Souness objects where there is some kind of query, either being a duplicate or centre out of the mid-channel. In Google Earth, I show heads in blue, termini in yellow, the 'centre' with a snowflake, and left and right mid-channel in magenta and green.

Overall, I don't think this on its own will have made a lot of difference to the classifier, since any DEM segments that overlap the extent would be chosen for the input, and a little more conservative 'extent' for those Souness GLFs that currently include non-glacial terrain would not likely make a decisive difference.

Northern Hemisphere

North of Olympus Mons

See also previous post.

In this area, Souness objects 87, 87, 96 and 108 stand out as odd-shaped.

Location, with the four Souness objects noted highlighted in yellow.

Souness 87 and 88 overlap significantly near the edge of h0037. Souness 91 and 92 are also visible.

Oblique view in Google Earth showing S87, 88, 91 and 92.

Souness 96 starts outside the HRSC tile h0037's area of coverage and joins what looks like a larger valley fill glacial form. The crater also appears to have glacial features infilling it, that are not catalogued by Souness.

Souness 96 looking west with CTX imagery in Google Earth.

Looking down on S96 with CTX imagery. There are other glacial like forms not catalogued by Souness since his intention was to catalogue analogues of valley-glaciers on Earth. In this area of Mars, recent (last few Myr) glacial activity is believed to be superimposed on an older landscape of the larger topographic forms.

S108 is outside any HRSC DTM tile.

The same area, in Google Earth. Note the slope liniae in the crater at lower-right. These may be the result of current episodic brine flows.

Zooming in on S108, a slope line is seen on the slope constraining it topographically.

Mareotis Fossae area

See also previous post.

Souness 12 in context within HRSC DTM tile h5401.

Souness 12 looking NW in an oblique CTX image mosaic. It is an interesting question why exactly Souness 12 is formed where it is when to the right gullies cover the slope instead.

Souness 47 (left) and Souness 31 (right). 46°N, 82-85°W.

Souness 44 at upper-left, with S43 and S45 nearer the centre.

Souness 47.

Souness 38 amid a glaciated landscape.

Souness 31 and 32 (north to south).

Souness 11, 12, and 14 within context showing Bayesian classifier result.

Souness 47 (left) and Souness 31 (right) with S43, 44, 45, 38 and 32 also shown. See also same area in previous post. 46°N, 82-85°W.

Deuteronilus Mensae

See also previous post.

In this area S6, 590, 617, 618, 634, 693, 708, 720, and 724 either have a markedly off-centre 'centre' or are duplicates.

Souness 6. 30°N, 11°W in HRSC tile h1498.

Souness 6 CTX images.

The duplicated Souness objects S567/578 and S566/577 are shown to the right above.

Souness 590 among several objects not covered by any HRSC DTM.

The same GLFs as the previous image, showing CTX images via Google Earth. Perhaps there has been several glacial epochs in the 'recent' times of the last few Myr that have been superimposed on the longer-term formed topographic channel?

Souness 617 and 618 among other GLFs along a topographic boundary.

S617/S618

Souness 634 at a topographic boundary where it appears there is other glacially reshaped terrain not classified as Souness objects.

S634

S634 in broader context.

Souness 693 among other GLFs and at least one more uncatalogued example near the top of this field.

S693 in context, looking west with CTX imagery.

Souness 720 and 693 highlighted.

S720 in upper-centre of image.

S720.

Souenss 708 and 707.

Souness 724.

S724 oblique view.

Protonilus Mensae

See also previous post.

Souness 337 and 338, along with some further Souness objects. ~ 36N, 57°E.

Souness 351 shows an odd shape, and is here depicted with other Souness GLFs. S348 perhaps has a position error, if it is in fact a little to the SW of where it is plotted. ~ 37°N, 56°E.

Visualising the Bayesian classifier Ln(K) for extents (blue) and 'head' areas (red).

Souness 380. 53°E, 40.5°N.

Souness 380, 389 and 390 in context along with a number of others.

Souness 389, 390.

Anaglyph PSP__009020_2210_PSP_008519.

Souness 400, 401, 402, 403, 404. ~ 52°E, 40°N.

Souness 445 shows an off-centre centre, where two other Souness GLFs are found on a mesa at 49°E, 46°N.

Souness 472, 473 and 474.

Souness 491.

 

Nilosyrtis Mensae

see also previous post.

Souness 204 and 205.

Souness 204 in the anaglyph ESP_027823_2100.

Souness 230 and 231 merging, along with 2 other Souness GLFs pictured.

Souness 245 at the low latitude of 28°N, where most of the surrounding valleys are non-glaciated, or perhaps where glaciers have now ablated.

Souness 247 is off-centre, shown here with some surrounding GLFs.

Souness 260.

Phlegra Montes

see also previous post.

Tiles h1423 and h1412, showing S150 at top, the duplicates S154 and S158 near top, and S156 near the bottom.

Souness 156.

Duplicates S154 and S158.

S156 in an oblique view looking W showing CTX imagery in Google Earth.

A higher view showing S156 and the duplicates S154/158.

S156, and S159 amid a complex glacial landscape.

S156 and S159

The southern hemisphere fields are shown in a post to follow.

Slope lines from segmented digital elevation model - after upgrade to QGIS 2.12.1

I mentioned previously that I used QGIS to draw lines in the direction of slope, where I had a segmented layerstack which included elevation, slope, aspect and 2 curvature layers (longitudinal and cross-sectional). This was done with RSGISlib in a similar way to my Mars work.

There was an bug with QGIS 2.12 that meant the plotting of arrows didn't work but with QGIS 2.12.1 this seems to be working again. It still takes a long time to render with the SVG marker, even with 32GB RAM and a quad-core system.

Here are a few examples:

Truro area in Cornwall. The slopes are marked with arrowed lines, with steeper slopes marked more thickly, and red for convex, and blue for concave slopes.

A closer zoom into the city.

Around Falmouth, including Pendennis Head

Falmouth again, with grayscale elevation.

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales:

I show here several QGIS screenshots, at 1:10000 or larger scale, since the rendering of the arrows becomes very slow beyond 1:10000.

Ynys Las and part of Borth Bog (Cors Fochno). This is mainly a flat area so most segments do not have lines shown.

Borth itself, a little to the south

Clarach Bay, and Wallog, and Bow Street

Aberystwyth town and main university campus are here shown, along with Pendinas hillfort, Penparcau, and Llanbadarn Fawr.

Cadair Idris - a textbook glacial landscape

Showing the arrows downslope only.

Adding in the slope parallell lines but making the arrowheads smaller.

At 1:20000 this takes a long time to render on the map canvas in QGIS.

A version with only the lines renders much faster.

Using contours instead of shading to indicate elevation.

Ebrenn y'n nos mis Kevardhu 2015

The folllowing is my 'Ebrenn y'n nos' (Sky at night in Cornish) contribution that I prepared December 2015. Apologies that I haven't managed to get this recorded for Radyo an Gernewegva and it will be too late now for it to be current.

Very late I know, but here is a relatively low quality recorded version. I have had trouble with noise using my own external microphone which I have tried to suppress with filtering in Audacity.

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Ottomma rann nowydh kevres "Ebrenn y'n nos" mis-Kevardhu.

Y'n mis ma, yma'n dydhyow an berrha a'n vlydhen. Yma howlsav an gwav 22a mis-Kevardhu pan vydh an howldrevel diworth Kardhinan 0817 ha'n howlsedhes 1617.
Diworth Pluwvaria yn Syllan yth yns an termynow 0821 ha 1626 (pymp mynysenn moy a dhydh) ha diworth Marwyn ogas dhe Bud yns i 0819 ha 1614 (pymp mynysenn le a dhydh). Kardhinan a'n jeves dorles arbennik drefenn eus 8 our poran ynter howldrevel ha howlsedhes.

2000 blydhen kyns Krist, yth o an dydh dhe'n howlsav gwav nebes berra, 0830-1623. Diworth Syllan (49°52') yth esa an jydh 0834-1634 (6ves mis-Genver 2000KK). An le usi an dydh howlsav gwav eth our a-hys a wrussa movya dhe'n north dres an kansvlydhynyow. Yma gans Kardhinan dorles 50°30'.

Yma an planet Yow gweladow y'n ebrenn bora an mis ma, ughel y'n soth kyns an howldrevel. Ev a sev a-dro dhe hanternos, hag a dhrehedhes y vann ughella our po dew kyns an howldrevel.
Meurth ha Gwener a wra omdiskwedhes nebes diwettha. Yow a vydh a-dherag an howl 8ves mis-Meurth 2016, ha Meurth a vydh a-dherag an howl 22a mis-Me 2016.

Yma Gwener yn Libra, nag yw hi labelys. 19ves mis-Kevardhu, 7 eur myttinweyth.

Yma kowas sterennow-koedha an mis ma. Yma an 'Geminids' gweladow diworth 7ves-16ves mis-Kevardhu, ha'ga bann yw 14ves mis-Kevardhu. Nosow an 13ves ha'n 14ves a vydh da aga gweles mars yw an ebrenn kler.
Yma an 'Geminids' temmigow doust ha bilennow diworth planetik Phaethon. Y hyll bos bys dhe 80 anedha gwealdow pub our ha traweythyow moy martesen. Yma an niver ughella dhe 1 po 2 eur, mes nyns yw res gortos difun mar dhiwedhes, ymons i gweladow a-hys an nos.
Gwel astronomynow.com/2015/12/08/get-ready-for-the-geminid-meteor-shower/ dhe gavoes moy a gedhlow.


An loor: kwartron diwettha yw 3a mis-Kevardhu, loer nowydh yw 11a mis-Kevardhu, kynsa kwartron yw 18ves, loer leun yw 25ves – dydh Nadelik. Moy a-dro dhe'n loer leun Nadelikl omma: astronomynow.com/2015/12/18/see-a-rare-full-moon-on-christmas-day/
Yma an lowr nowydh dhe'n bann 'Geminids' ha possybl vydh kavoes erbrenn tewl ragdha.

Yma New Horizons ow mos yn-mes an system howlyek mes kyns henna ev a wra treusnija taklenn grogys Kuiper 2014 MU69 dhe Dy' Kalann 2019.
Data diworth New Horizons a dhiskwedhas 'loskvenydhyow rew' war Bluton, i a welas menydh gans toll orth an penn. Rag an nowodhow a-dro dhodho gwra gweles orth pluto.jhuapl.edu.

Onan an gwella 'resolution' imajys o Bluton dre New Horizons. Gwiasva John Hopkins University, Applied Physical Laboratory

Bys nessa prys ha Nadelik Lowen.