ROSETTA-ORBITER OSIWAC: Calibrated Spacecraft Imagery from 2008

Solar stray light corrected, radiometric calibrated, and geometric distortion corrected image data in reflectance units acquired by the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft. The dataset covers the period from 2008-01-28 to 2008-08-03, with the prime objective being commissioning and calibration. This version V1.0 is the first version of this dataset, produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Use Cases

• Validate and calibrate remote sensing instruments based on the described stray light and radiometric corrections.
• Analyze geometric distortion in spaceborne camera systems based on the resampled image data.
• Study reflectance properties of celestial targets of opportunity observed during the cruise phase.
• Develop image processing pipelines for calibrated spacecraft imagery.

Strengths

• Data has undergone three levels of correction: solar stray light, radiometric calibration, and geometric distortion resampling.
• Covers a defined time range from 2008-01-28 to 2008-08 03.
• Produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, an authoritative source for space mission data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The prime objective was calibration, and no identifiable prime target is mentioned, which may limit scientific analysis scope.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Acquired by the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera on the Rosetta spacecraft during the CRUISE 4-1 mission phase.

Time Range

2008-01-28T00:00:00.000 to 2008-08-03T23:59:59.000

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 06:50:07.997051; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Space; celestial targets of opportunity observed during a spacecraft cruise phase.