Automated Colorization of M2020 SHERLOC Context Images(NPO-52595-1)

This technology is a script, written in Python, that uses functions from the OpenCV library to automatically detect keypoints within images from two subsystems of SHERLOC, the ACI and WATSON imagers. These keypoints are then matched and used to warp the WATSON image to the ACI, resulting in a "colorized" ACI. This ACI is co-boresighted with the SHERLOC spectrometer, and the resulting image product can allow for analysis of spectral, textural, and color information of observed rock surfaces. It can be used as a standalone script and the resulting colorized ACIs can be integrated into the Loupe software (created by K. Uckert) for SHERLOC data analysis.