U.S.G.S. Planetary GIS Web Server - PIGWAD

Mars Crater Consortium (partner page at NAU)

• All Catalogs - On-line HTML Viewer -- Viewer Help
• On-line Crater Density Tool (almost available) -- Help -- (abstract pdf)

 

Mars Crater Catalogs

 

• Barlow Northern Hemisphere Crater Database V2 (not yet available)

  GIS Shapefile / Table - Zip File

  • Geographic - Decimal Degrees (Latitude/Longitude)
    • Paper

   

• Boyce Northern Plains Depth/Diameter Database

  GIS Shapefile / Table - Zip File

• Geographic - Decimal Degrees (Latitude/Longitude)
  • Readme, Papers

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Mars Historical Crater Catalogs

 

• Barlow, Boyce, Costard, Kuzmin, Strom, Roddy 

  GIS Shapefile / Table - Zip File

• Geographic - Decimal Degrees (Latitude/Longitude)
• Barlow Global Crater Database (Readme, scanned pdf)
• Boyce (abstract)
• Costard
• Kuzmin
• Strom
• Roddy, (abstracts part I. 1874, part II. 1879)

 

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References (sampling)

• Barlow, N. G., J. M. Boyce, F. M. Costard, R. A. Craddock, J. B. Garvin, S. E. H. Sakimoto, R. O. Kuzmin, D. J. Roddy, and L. A. Soderblom (2000), Standardizing the nomenclature of Martian impact crater ejecta morphologies, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 26733-26738.
• Barlow, N. G. (2006), Impact craters in the northern hemisphere of Mars: Layered ejecta and central pit characteristics, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 41, 1425-1436.
• Barlow, N. G., C. W. Barnes, O. S. Barnouin-Jha, J. M. Boyce, C. R. Chapman, F. M. Costard, R. A. Craddock, J. B. Garvin, R. Greeley, T. M. Hare, R. O. Kuzmin, P. J. Mouginis-Mark, H. E. Newsom, S. E. H. Sakimoto, S. T. Stewart, and L. A. Soderblom (2003), Utilizing GIS in Martian impact crater studies , in ISPRS WG IV/9: Extraterrestrial Mapping Workshop, Advances in Planetary Mapping (pdf).
• Boyce, J.M. and Mouginis-Mark, P.J. (2006), Martian craters viewed by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument: Double-layered ejecta craters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 111, Issue E10.
• Boyce, J.M., et al. (2005) Mars Lowland Plains Crater Data, JGR Planets.
• Crater Analysis Techniques Working Group (1978) Standard Techniques for Presentation and Analysis of Crater Size-Frequency Data. NASA Technical Memorandum 79730, 20 pp.
• Hartmann and Neukum (2001) Cratering chronolgy and the Evolution of Mars (2001), (pdf)
• Hartmann, W. K. (2005), Martian Cratering 8: Isochron refinement and the chronology of Mars, Icarus, Volume 174, Issue 2, p. 294-320.