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Release Notes

April 16, 2024 (SBMT-0.8.4.4)

Bug Fixes:

• SBMT-IMAGE#177 - Now falls back to internal FITS loader if GDAL fails
• SBMT-IMAGE#172, SBMT-QUERY#19 - Fixed problem with loading a particular set of queried images
• SBMT-CLIENT#180 - Updated masking for Eros images

February 13, 2024 (SBMT-0.8.4.3)

Bug Fixes:

• SAAVTK#91: Fixed loading of ESRI shapefiles

January 29, 2024 (SBMT-0.8.4.2)

Bug Fixes:

• SBMT-IMAGE#169: Fixed image offsets against body
• SBMT-IMAGE#170: Fixed image galleries for Didymos/Dimorphos
• SBMT-STATEHISTORY#28: Fixed display of time ranges
• SBMT-POINTING#15: Fixed Bennu statehistory for SPICE pointing not loading

November 30, 2023 (SBMT-0.8.4.1)

New:

• SAAVTK#88: The Strucures tab has been redesigned and has received various improvements.

Bug Fixes:

• SBMT-CORE#2: Fixed bug when spawning DTM into custom model
• SBMT-DEM#56: Fixed bug when iterating over plate colorings
• SBMT-IMAGE#159: Now disables search button while loading images (also added Clear results button)
• SBMT-TOOLS#4 and SBMT-TOOLS#5: Updated server side processing tools
• SAAVTK#86: Shape model importer now supports more extensions
• SAAVTK#87: Improved bridging between DEM and Model libraries

November 9, 2023 (SBMT-0.8.4)

• As you see below, we are now referencing our release notes by issues in our project tracker - this is in support of our upcoming open sourcing of SBMT - stay tuned for details!

New:

• (Various issues): Data for the DART mission is now available!
• SBMT-DDAP#124: New Model: 9P Tempel 1 (Ernst et al (2019))
• SAAVTK#2: BETA (Needs external testers!): SBMT theoretically now supports using a proxy - this can be found in the settings window

Bug Fixes:

• SBMT-MODEL#12: Custom image pane not appearing in custom models
• SBMT-IMAGE#156: Improvements to color (RGB) rendering
• SBMT-IMAGE#14: Improvements to right click menu behavior in image table
• SBMT-IMAGE#40: When making a custom color image from non-overlapping images, a proper error is now thrown
• SBMT-CLIENT#78: Improvements to the SBMT setting panel
• SAAVTK#80: The axes components is now reintegrated with the renderer, instead of being placed in a separate window
• SAAVTK#1: Removed the Commons Text library due to a vulnerability

July 17, 2023 (SBMT-0.8.3.3)

• Improved performance of loading and switching models
• Better handling of unsupported custom models

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an error when adding observing conditions for some bodies
• Fixed some bugs in the color image composite tool
• Sorting by image index now sorts correctly
• Resetting the normal offset now immediately takes effect
• Multi layer FITS files now show planes in proper order
• When using "w" or "s" to change the body representation, the UI is now properly updated

June 15, 2023 (SBMT-0.8.3.2)

New:

• SBMT can now read (modern) IMG files natively
• Added support to move multiple structures simultaneously
• Improved performance of structures
• New 2023 Phobos and Deimos models

Bug Fixes:

• Additional GDAL library support for Linux
• Fixed a bug when viewing 67P
• Fixed error when adjusting contrast of images
• Fixed a bug when saving round structures with a filename that has a space in it

March 14, 2023 (SBMT-0.8.3.1)

Bug Fixes:

• Updates to handle of certain SPICE frames
• Fixed some time zone issues

February 28, 2023 (SBMT-0.8.3)

New:

• Large rework of image tab
• GDAL library now used for loading and displaying images
• Major improvements to image table behavior, similar to other tabs
• FITS files can now be loaded cylindrically
• Auto-masking for images now possible
• Custom image tab now behaves more like the server tab
• New color image composition tool
• New custom image import workflow, including bulk imports. Custom images are now imported within the imaging tab.
• Updates to properties pane GUI
• Pointing file for custom image can now be changed.
• Can now export image geometry as an OBJ

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed feathering when re-rendering images
• Loading MSI files no longer give a NoSuchFileException
• Offlimb edges around body now smoother
• Order and boundary color no longer change upon addition/removal of custom images.

July 14, 2022 (SBMT-0.8.2)

CRITICAL:

• Fixed a launching problem on macOS Mojave and above.

New:

• Updates to the Graticule (lat lon grid)
• Color bar configuration panel now standardized
• SBMT now runs in Java 16
• Various updates to the Observing Conditions tab
• User Interface updates to the main body pane (UI redesign, movie outputs)
• New Bennu models (OLAv21, OLAv21PTM, SPOv54); other Bennu data updates
• Internal: MEGANE and DART updates

Bug Fixes:

• FIXED: Lat/lon structure center sometimes does not allow values to be added
• FIXED: Restored status bar to utilize fixed width font
• FIXED: Correct popup logic in structures/lidar
• FIXED: Improved point diameter UI
• FIXED: SBMT window size maintained between launches

Jun 7, 2021 (SBMT-0.8.1)

New:

• Completed an overhaul of the Regional DTM tab with updates to the table, right click options, and analyze window
• Header information from FITS files will be displayed when DTM is uploaded
• User can sort items in the custom DTM table
• Lighting can be customized for individual DTMs
• The configuration of the Regional DTM tab can be restored after a restart
• The boundary color for Regional DTMs can be configured
• An Analyze panel now provides a means for investigating individual DTMs
• The Regional DTM tab can now import obj files
• Added the ability to add and delete individual profiles on a DTM
• Reinstated the ability to offset an individual DTM from the body
• Clicking on an individual DTM mapped on the body now prints the name of that DTM to the status bar
• Made upgrades to the lighting mechanism and moved it under the View menu
• Status bar now performs better when the window is resized
• Preliminary SPC-derived shape models of Epimetheus, Janus, and Calypso are now available, including searchable Cassini ISS images (Daly et al in progress)
• Thomas et al shape models of Epimetheus, Janus, and Calypso from the PDS are now available

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that did not allow the tool to start properly if offline
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash for Windows users when mapping custom images
• Fixed a bug that prevented the value of the displayed plate coloring to be printed to the status bar when clicking on the body
• Fixed various bugs caused when mapping and unmapping DTMs
• Fixed a bug that caused the reported min/max incidence and emission angles to show identical values
• Fixed a bug that caused the mapping of custom images to be slow and not update with model resolution

November 17, 2020 (SBMT-0.8.0.3)

New:

• Note this release contains only restricted proprietary data and a small amount of data that is available in public releases of the SBMT. Most users do not need and cannot use this version.
• Added DART mission restricted data sets.
• Improved and generalized handling of special values for image pixels, allowing these values to be treated as "FILL".

Bug Fixes

• Improved behavior of some image galleries by downloading thumbnails and images in bulk and allowing them to be viewed out of the data cache rather than from the web site.

July 27, 2020 (SBMT-0.8.0)

New:

• Added a new "View" menu to the main SBMT menu bar. The "View" menu includes options for setting the scale bar, camera settings, pick accuracy and LOD settings (the latter two pertain to selecting structures, lidar tracks, etc.)
• Improved LOD capabilities (which enable feature selection) to allow the user to choose to prioritize speed vs. rendering quality
• Headers added to circle, point, and ellipse structures files
• LIDAR GUI improvements
• Added camera config panel and scalebar support for regional DTMs
• Added ability to adjust camera to a enable a specified scale bar value
• Improved error handling when loading image lists
• Added option to choose to either "append" or "replace" custom spectra when loading list
• Improved camera panel to give the user more control over camera position and orientation
• Improved About dialog and frame title for version representation
• Added ability to save spectrum popup menu item to a directory for multiple spectra

Bug Fixes

• Made stability improvements to SBMT server
• Improved behavior when client starts without network access
• Improved structure selection capability
• Updated scale bar behavior to preserve accuracy when body no longer fills the field of view
• Corrected radius reporting for structures whose lat/lon were changed by right click
• Fixed bug that when clicking "Edit" on Custom Spectrum tab with no spectra selected threw exceptions
• Fixed bug where coordinate grid (lat/lon) labels did not show up for bodies on Windows machines
• Fixed bug with drawing circles correctly on high-resolution models
• Improved structures loading time
• Corrected a bug in save state capability
• Fixed a bug that lead circle structures to inadvertently be loaded as point structures, and vis versa
• Fixed an issue that led to inconsistent angle behavior when editing the ellipse angle

March 17, 2020 (SBMT-0.7.9.1)

New:

• Added ability to bulk save fits images 
• Added ability to have right-click options act on multiple selected spectra
• Standardized ability to use wildcards when searching image databases
• Added ability to show image boundary for image cubes created within the tool
• Improved error messages for when a user tries to access data they are not authorized to view
• Disabled search parameter option for image collections that work off of a fixed list

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented the "name" field from being properly ingested for circles, ellipses, and points 
• Fixed a bug that caused a custom image to be unmapped if edited

February 19, 2020 (SBMT-0.7.9)

New:

• Added additional information columns to structures tables.
• Added ability to sort structure column tables by numerical content.
• Added support of comments at the top of structures files, denoted by # for circles, ellipses, and points files, and denoted by appearing after the first XML line of paths and polygons files.
• Added ability to load structures of any type from any structures sub-tab.
• Added GUI to facilitate loading/replacing/appending structures files.
• Improved the logic used when creating new paths and polygons.
• Added a progress bar when loading paths and polygons.
• Changed structures files to have labels hidden by default when loaded.
• Improved the resize behavior of spectra panels.
• Established new image class for images of Phobos and Deimos (MARS_MOON_IMAGE) for custom import.
• Added ability to import custom shape models in stl format.
• Updated images in Phobos>Gaskell 2011 model to match those in Phobos>Ernst et al. model.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused the colors of circles and points to default to pink when loaded.
• Fixed a bug that caused Itokawa AMICA images to appear black.
• Fixed a bug that prevented circles from being drawn on some custom loaded shape models.
• Fixed a bug that caused pull-down menus in custom spectra import GUI to overlap.
• Fixed a bug that caused simulate lighting option to not be marked as on after selected via right click.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a hard crash when appending or replacing structures files.
• Fixed bugs that caused profile plots (selected via paths) to behave improperly.
• Fixed bug that prevented “cancel” button from working when loading structures.
• Fixed a bug that caused database queries to fail instead of returning a fixed list of results.
• Fixed a bug that caused issues when rendering structure labels.
• Fixed a bug affecting the implementation of shape model opacity.

December 12, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.8)

New:

• Added feature to save custom stretches for images.
• Numerous updates to the spectra instrument and custom data tabs.
• Provided two ways to save spectra: SBMT original file and human readable.
• Added option to view the spacecraft position on lidar tabs.
• Removed level of detail changes when selecting a structure or data file via the shape model.
• Number of datapoints in a lidar track are now pre-computed for all lidar search tabs and the OREx OLA browse tab.
• Added the ability to visualize a lidar colorbar in the renderer window.

Bug Fixes:

• Re-instated several keyboard shortcuts (f, r, s, w).
• Fixed a bug that caused custom images not to load for Windows.
• Fixed a bug that caused a program crash when searches on distinct datasets were run in series.
• Fixed a bug that caused exported DTM models not to reflect their parents’ data tabs.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect computation of elevation across profiles.
• Fixed a bug that caused error messages when selecting a pre-existing custom model.
• Fixed a bug that caused some images of Phobos and Deimos to be flipped when projected on the model.
• Fixed the broken “tutorials” link in the help menu.

OREx only:

• Delivery of 20191027 model.
• Update of 20190828 model.
• Update of 20190612 model.
• Fixed bug that caused OLA start and stop times to be incorrect.
• Updated Bennu observing conditions files.
• Added OVIRS tab under custom data.
• Improvements to the way custom Bennu images are imported.
• Re-ordered models chronologically instead of alphabetically.

October 25, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.7.2)

Bug Fixes:

• Restored a set of missing parameters from the body configuration metadata that broke some functionality

October 17, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.7.1)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bug related to the View Search Results as Image Gallery not being enabled for certain bodies

October 11, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.7)

New:

• Added support for MacOS Catalina
• The install process for the software for all Mac users has changed to accommodate this support: 1) Open the downloaded .pkg and follow instructions in the install wizard. 2) SBMT will now appear as an application in the /Applications/SBMT folder. The functionality of the tool should be unchanged. Please contact sbmt@jhuapl.edu if you encounter installation issues.
  
• Added ability for client to add new models to SBMT without requiring a new release.
• Added offlimb image visualization capability for custom images.
• Added ability to define default color scheme for visualizing plate colorings.
• Added functionality for colorizing lidar tracks.
• Added visual indicators to show which column(s) is being used for sorting.
• Added scalebar value to DTM properties panel.
• Improved performance of lidar track processing.
• Improved indication on body of which lidar tracks are selected.
• Improved tables implemented for lidar tab.
• Improved logic for selecting multiple structures.
• Improved performance when hiding/showing many circles/ellipse/points structures.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug that allowed duplicate custom image names to be created.
• Fixed a bug causing strange behavior when user went on and offline repeatedly.
• Fixed a bug that prevented structures from being deleted.
• Fixed a bug that caused a model error when a custom perspective image was imported after a custom cylindrical image (or vice versa).

OREx only:

• Changed default color scheme for Bennu models to Spectral_Low Blue.
• Delivery of 20190612 model.
• Delivery of 20190828 model.

July 10, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.6)

New

• Major improvements to the layout of the LIDAR pane, for both browse and search
• Support for multiple basemaps on the main Body page, with server side support, has been added
• The startup process of the tool has been streamlined, and it should start much quicker, pushing some tasks to work in the background
• As part of the above streamlining, SBMT can now detect whether you go on or offline, and update menu items accordingly
• Some models now have image footprints and offlimb images pre-rendered on the server; we will be adding more of these over time

Bug fixes

• A fix in 0.7.5.1 caused the CPU to run high - this has been resolved
• A difference in reported pixel location and value when certain pointing types were used has been resolved - they should now be consistent across pointing types (e.g. SPICE vs SPC)
• Several fixes related to reporting the proper pixel, value and lat/lon have been made
• Improvements to the structures rendering have been made, especially with large numbers of structures

OREx only

• Server side processing for OLA has been updated - search should be more reliable
• 2018 models have been removed from SBMT since there are newer, more accurate models to use
• For the 2 higher resolution models, certain data used to render the image and offlimb footprints (where applicable) have been pre-generated, which should greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to map images on those resolutions.

May 9, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.5.1)

Bug fixes

• Custom Plate colorings and Custom images no longer write to the same configuration file (removes an exception seen by some users)
• Save plate data/view statistics in polygons now works properly
• Loading plate colorings then a structures file no longer crashes the tool
• The scalebar on the 3D screen should now update properly as the user zooms in/out
• Various updates to the behavior of the image table (NOTE: There is a known issue where sorting by Date requires 2 clicks of the column; we are investigating)

OREx only

• 20190207b sumfile update
• Delivery of 20190414 model

April 25, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.5)

New

• Added ability to save structures when saving state
• Added the ability to sort lists of images, data, and structures by column headers
• Added a properties button to view FITS headers for plate colorings
• Added the ability to sync contrast stretches between portions of images that are on the body and off the limb
• Added ability to customize the color of offlimb image boundaries
• Improved lidar GUI and features
• Enabled the ability to right click and view options for custom images

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the tool to hang on startup when too many restricted models were encountered
• Fixed bug that was not properly saving images in the save state
• Reinstated ability to save plate data within multiple structures
• Fixed a bug that would not allow flip edits to already loaded custom images
• Fixed a bug that caused custom lighting to be removed when an image was unmapped

OREx only

• Added a NAVCAM tab
• Fixed a bug that caused an error when performing an OCAMS search
• Fixed a bug that prevented sunward arrow from appearing for OTES and OVIRS spectra
• Added new shape models

March 8, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.4.1)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed problems with item selections in image table
• Fixed ENVI loading problem in custom image pane on windows

March 1, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.4)

New

• Added the ability to save the state of ellipse, circle, and point structures
• Added support to allow shape model manipulation while in structures edit mode
• Added ability to sort structures by attribute
• Added support to import/export ESRI-compatible structures files
• Added the ability to view off-limb portions of images
• Made UI improvements to lidar tabs
• Re-enabled the ability to drag Lidar tracks

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug that prevented custom images from being loaded
• Fixed bug that prevented users from saving structures files if offline and plate colorings were not cached
• Fixed a bug that prevented reset of image search parameters
• Fixed bug that prevented users with European machines from viewing some shape models
• Fixed bugs associated with loading and deleting custom DTMs
• Fixed bugs associated with image checkboxes

OREx Only:

• Added new shape models
• Made enhancements to OLA search capability
• Fixed bug that prevented image map from displaying on newest models

January 17, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.3)

• Loading structures on higher resolution models now presents a progress dialog to show the user something is indeed happning
• Improvements to the custom images tab (NOTE: we are aware of continuing problems with the state of the checkboxes in this pane; this will be fixed in a future release)
• Improvements to LIDAR displays
• Improvements to the DTM tab
• Color images with perspective projection are now colored properly

OREX: - List of images now match the boundaries for MAPCAM and POLYCAM - MAPCAM image gallery button on the last few models has been fixed - Updates to the 1217 and 1227 models - Bennu basemap can now be displayed from the main Bennu tab.

January 3, 2019 (SBMT-0.7.2)

• Model updates for OREX

December 21, 2018 (SBMT-0.7.1)

• Improvements when loading saved image lists
• Improvements to the custom DTM pane
• Improvements to the custom images pane

OREX: - OTES and OVIRS are now enabled - Better UI behavior in the OTES and OVIRS panes

November 28, 2018 (SBMT-0.7.0)

• Made UI improvements to the properties pane within the Regional DTMs tab
• Made the saving of very high resolution plate colorings to a local machine more efficient
• Added version numbers to the downloaded application once unzipped
• Fixed bug that caused an error when loading custom plate colorings on Windows machines
• Fixed bug that caused an error when adding additional plate colorings to a custom fits shape model
• Fixed bug that prevented users from loading custom models via the command line

OREx: - Fixed bug that caused an incorrect flip of MAPCAM and POLYCAM images - Added ability to load in a global fits image cube - Added new SPC shape models

November 6, 2018 (SBMT-0.6.6)

• Added the ability to save the state of the camera view and image panel settings
• Added tooltips to and improved user-friendliness of toolbar icons
• Added ability to transfer custom DTM plate colorings when exporting to custom model
• Made bug fixes and UI improvements to the custom images panel
• Fixed bug that caused an error when loading a sumfile without deleting the default infofile name
• Fixed bug that with the "Show Spacecraft" option in the Observing Conditions tab

H2: - Added new SPC shape models with the latest ONC, TIR, and LIDAR data - Fixed bug that caused the LIDAR hide checkbox to become unsynced with the hide dropdown menu

October 22, 2018 (SBMT-0.6.5.1)

• Configuration update for H2 lidar data

October 18, 2018 (SBMT-0.6.5)

• Made bug fixes, feature enhancements, and UI improvements to the structures panel
• Made bug fixes, feature enhancements, and UI improvements to the custom images panel
• Made bug fixes and feature enhancements to custom plate coloring import and display
• Made bug fixes and feature enhancements to DTM tab
• Made performance enhancements when changing the resolution of shape models while also displaying plate colorings

OREx: - Added search capabilities for OTES and OVIRS

H2: - Added hypertree search for LIDAR data - Added ability to import custom LIDAR data

September 7, 2018 (SBMT-0.6.0)

• Added ability for users to use a selected regional DTM as the main shape on which to map data
• Made minor enhancements to SBMT GUI
• Resolved bug that interfered with saving plate data inside polygon structures
• Resolved bug with backplane generation
• Resolved bug with Viking images of Phobos and Deimos

H2: - Added LIDAR data; added new SPC and SFM shape models with the latest ONC and TIR data; added searchable database for TIR data

August 16, 2018 (SBMT-0.5.5.1)

• Fixed a startup problem crash when the preferences file didn't exist

August 15, 2018 (SBMT-0.5.5)

• Updated the way the Tool behaves if user is not connected to the internet when the SBMT starts.
• Fixed bug with structures not displaying and repositioning correctly on the body.
• Fixed bug that prevented users on Windows machine from passing shape models to the SBMT using the command line
• Fixed bugs with plate coloring visualization
• Fixed bugs with custom images functionality

H2: - Several new SPC and SFM shape models with the latest ONC and TIR data

July 13, 2018 (SBMT-0.5.1)

• Fixed a problem with EROS NIS Database searches

July 10, 2018 (SBMT-0.5.0)

• Added ability for the user to return the SBMT to the same state it was in previously (i.e., to open the SBMT with same shape model and view as the user previously was using)
• Added ability to read in a csv file that contains ancillary plate coloring data
• Fixed bugs with plate coloring saving
• Fixed bugs with custom images functionality
• Fixed bugs in the camera menu.

OREx: - Fixed bugs with displaying and saving OTES and OVIRS spectra - Fixed bugs with loading LIDAR tracks with similar times - Fixed bug that led to SBMT returning search results on the wrong part of the body for OCAMS data

March 20, 2018 (SBMT-2018.03.20)

• Release notes coming soon!

March 19, 2018 (SBMT-2018.03.19)

• Release notes coming soon!

July 31, 2017

• Terms of use is now on the internal and external web page
• Splashscreen now shows upon launch
• Time history functionality fixes implemented

March 13, 2017

• Linux version working again
• Hierarchical image search specification (Phobos Experimental only)
• Fixed bugs with structure control point visibility, frustum visibility, image cube generation, and DEM properties window colorbar synchronization
• Notifications appear whenever client fails attempt to access SQL or data server
• Added "Gaskell Updated" pointing search option to Eros (Gaskell) MSI tab
• User is given option to decide when colormaps update
• Other minor GUI updates and bugfixes

January 24, 2017 (Beta)

• Fixed bugs in Bennu OLA search, browse, and track panels (leftover from the October 21, 2016 beta release)
• Added colormap specification and control for scalar plate colorings, contours can be rendered as filled regions or lines
• Fixed structure labels so they are hidden when their footpoint is occluded from view
• Corrected band slider synchronization issues with multispectral images
• Other minor bugfixes

November 19, 2016 (Beta)

• Improved accuracy of lidar point selection using mouse pointer
• Profile plots show radius if no plate coloring is selected
• All structures now support level of detail (LOD) switching
• Multiple DEMs can be loaded from file simultaneously in DEMs tab
• Plate color scaling can now be synchronized between DEM Properties View and the main window
• Fixed synchronization bugs between DEM Properties View and the main window
• Descriptive error message now shown if unable to draw structure due to an erroneously formed shape model
• Added button to custom-generate image gallery HTML page based on image search results

October 21, 2016 (Beta)

• Moved to VTK (Visualization Toolkit) version 6.3 libraries (Linux version not working yet)
• Display of spacecraft trajectories, animation of spacecraft, sub-solar and sub-earth surface points (Beta version)
• Loading of ALTWG DEM FIT files as custom shape models
• Off-limb image rendering (Beta)
• Added Phobos MOLA tab
• Fixed problem of gallery image preview going off screen
• OLA tracks under search tab now show the time range
• Automatically set footprint stacking order of NIS spectral footprints using phase angle statistics
• Fixed bugs in Bennu OLA search, browse, and track panels, added several new generated datasets
• Added pick tolerance slider to View menu.
• Added button to custom-generate image gallery HTML page based on image search results (Beta)
• Now showing image pixel value in status bar when clicked in image property view
• Implemented shadowing calculations for NIS images
• Revised Names of asteroids and comets

September 14, 2016

• Re-enabled output of pixel coordinates when clicking on image in properties window

August 29, 2016

• Image properties dialog now displaying for all images
• Viking Phobos images now being returned from database searches
• Console once again prints out coordinates when clicking on the surface
• "Hide Labels" and "Show Labels" buttons added to Structures tabs

August 17, 2016

• Recents menu is now updating properly
• Added text labels to all structures
• OLA tracks are no longer divided into 10 second chunks
  
• Bigmaps now makes all DistributedGravity results available

August 5, 2016

• DEMs with .fits, .FITS, .fit, and .FIT file extensions can now be loaded
• Name of DEM file now displayed in title of DEM view

August 4, 2016

• Added "Show spacecraft position" checkbox to the lidar search panel.
• Selecting a spacecraft point or its corresponding surface point highlights both simultaneously.
• Fixed bug in lidar point selection due to LODs.
• DEM tab is now able to save original FITs files
• Bigmaps now works on shape models with spaces in name
• Track name now displayed in OLA track list
• Right click on instrument tab now brings up "set default instrument"
• OLA track labels now match the color of their respective tracks
• OLA tracklist in Tracks tab does now populates when .L2 files are loaded
• OLA point selection now works when LODs are enabled
• Right click on OLA track list now produces popup menu
• "Recently viewed models" pullright added to view menu
• Flip and Rotate controls in Import New Image dialog are now enabled for GENERIC_IMAGE type
• Import New Shape Model dialog Polar Radius Z axis is no longer corrupted when editing
• Can now load generic FITS DTM files into DEM view
• Paths show interpolated profiles if no plate coloring is selected
• Boundary of deleted custom image or DEM no longer stays on shape model after deleted
• If the normal offset of an image is changed, the normal offset of the boundary now changes
• Added a "Clear Cache" menu item
• Fixed bugs in "Import Shape Models" dialog
• Improved look of LidarSearchPanel GUI

July 15, 2016

• DEM tab, added to all bodies allows DEM files to be loaded locally
• DEMs can now be displayed directly on the body surface in the 3D View
• MapMaker and BigMaps generated DEMs can be selected from DEM tab and viewed in DEM Properties View
• DEM plate coloring in DEM Properties View can now be optionally synchronized with the 3D View
• 2D Profiles can now be viewed on tracks in the 3D View, as well as the DEM Properties View
• OLA panel in the Bennu model is now optimized for time queries as well as spatial queries
• OLA search tab now allows user to select from multiple locally generated OLA data sources
• OLA search results now show name of OLA data file
• OLA search results list now has checkboxes to control visibility
• New "Favorites" menu item allows user to add frequently used small body models to the View menu
• Favorites menu also allows specification of default model to load on startup.
• Right click on current viewing tab allows user to set favorite instrument for default model.
• Image pull-right "Simulate Lighting" menu item can now be toggled on and off
• Colors of image boundaries no longer change to red when model resolution is changed

June 14, 2016

• Fixed bugs in ImageCube registration and display of boundaries
• Tutorial can now be downloaded directly from client help menu
• Daphne, Hermione and Pallas models now load properly
• Reference potential values have now been added to the references web page

May 26, 2016

• Changed Image Cubes to output image pixel values in scientific units
• Added stereo viewing capabilities
• Added Bennu shape model version 4

May 5, 2016

• MapMaker functionality has been upgraded to use BigMaps
• Multi-layer images (Image Cubes) can now be created from multiple overlapping images
• OLA LIDAR intensity data can now be displayed
• Fixed bugs in importing of FITS images for custom models
• FITS images of type double can now be imported
• New version of tutorial now available
• Fixed another bug in "File->Export Six Views" command

April 6, 2016

• Added custom image import to user manual.
• Fixed bug introduced in March 9, 2016 public release that prevented any images from being mapped

April 4, 2016

• Added "Image Galleries" link to sidebar menu.
• Version 3 of 67p model, increased resolution of image search.
• Fixed MapMaker and LEISA image search bug.
• Added "Save Selected Image List" option.

March 11, 2016

• Improved performance of OLA search for Bennu using a tree search algorithm

March 9, 2016

• 3D view now switches to lower level of detail for shape and lidar data when dragging or zooming to improve interactive performance
• Custom image panel can now import FITS image files, including image cubes
• Imported custom images can now be arbitrarily rotated or flipped, including generic FITS images
• Displayed band of imported custom image cubes can now be selected with a slider
• Lidar point intensity now being displayed by modulating intensity of color
• Ancillary FITS files can now be imported to specify plate coloring
• Sensor to target range info now being displayed in status bar when selecting lidar point
• Removed old version of Bennu model data

January 29, 2016

• Version 2 of 67p model with documentation
• Mapmaker profile plot now showing correct data for values besides gravity-derived elevation
• Updated content of references webpage

December 31, 2015

• Full fix of clipping bug in imported cylindrical images

December 7, 2015

• Fixed bug with Ceres genericPhpQuery
• Changed Ceres FS search default start/end dates to April 2015 - July 2015, which covers the entire span of dates for available images
• Users can now export a mapped image as an ENVI file

November 24, 2015

• Database queries now working for Bennu images
• File->Camera... dialog box now has lat, lon and roll parameters
• Fixed bug in "File->Export Six Views" command
• Partial fix of bug in importing cylindrical images covering less than the full surface

October 28, 2015

• Added database query for new image files

October 26, 2015

• Added new model and image files

October 20, 2015

• Added test image data for Bennu POLYCAM imager

September 28, 2015

• Fixed Windows bug loading AMICA image files

August 11, 2015

• Fixed bug in "Export Six Views" command
• Added "Corrected" and "Corrected Spice Derived" pointing sources for LORRI images. Currently, only Pluto contains any corrected pointing information, but this will be uploaded to the server when it becomes available.
• "Reset Pointing" button in ImageInfo dialog now deletes any adjusted pointing file
• Exported INFO files now contain the transformed pointing information without any adjusted keywords, so the adjustments have been folded in.
• Fixed bug in zoom buttons of ImageInfo dialog that caused zooming to stop after a certain amount.
• Fixed bug in ImageInfo dialog boxes where components were shrinking to minimum size.
• Improved resizing behavior of components in ImageInfo dialog boxes.
• Fixed bug in "Camera..." menu command causing camera position to freeze.
• Added three-axis ellipsoid model generation to Import Shape Models dialog.
• Updated radiuses of Charon, Hydra and Nix shape models. Currently, the Hydra and Nix models are spheres, but we will update them to three-axis ellipsoids when data becomes available.

July 18, 2015

• Pluto and its moons' models have all been modified to reflect lastest consensus radii
• SUM pointing files can now be placed manually in the local .neartool directory, or submitted to an SBMT curator for upload to the server. These will override the INFO pointing files.
• Bug in image pointing pan buttons, which made some closeup images impossible to adjust, has been fixed.
• Bug in x/X/y/Y/x/Z key commands, which caused the camera to zoom in close to the body, has been fixed.
• Bug in "Generate Backplanes..." image popup menu, which caused it to throw an exception, has been fixed.

July 16, 2015

• Upgraded to latest version of VTK
• Fixed bug in loading of SUM pointing files in the custom "Image" tab
• Fixed bug in loading of custom perspective images where images were flipped
• Added LORRI, MVIC and LEISA tabs for HYDRA and NIX moons of PLUTO
• Added HYDRA and NIX to the data pipeline

July 13, 2015

• Modified image pointing information is now being saved with an "INFO.adjusted" suffix in the local cache, so it is not overwritten when the backend pipeline is rerun. These files can be copied directly from the cache directory into other user's cache directories, and they can eventually be uploaded to the server.
  
• INFO file import and export file names in dialog boxes now default to the image file name with a ".INFO" suffix.
  
• Panning, zooming and rotation pointing direction buttons scalable by scale factor.

July 10, 2015

• Added interactive pointing adjust capability
• [New Horizons team only] Added spectrum display for LEISA images
• Added INFO file specification field for importing custom perspective images.
• Pointing information can now by adjusted manually using the "Select Target" mode. or the pan, zoom and rotate buttons on the Image Info dialog.
• LEISA and MVIC instrument tabs added to Pluto bodies.
• Color image info dialog now has contrast and intensity sliders.

February 26, 2015

• When loading a shape model by specifying path to shape model on the command line, fixed issue in which full path of shape model was required rather than a relative path.
• In Mapmaker tab, added ability to manually specify search region, rather than via region selection with mouse.
• In image search tabs, added checkboxes to list of matching images for mapping and hiding images.
• In image search tabs, added button (below search list) for saving out list of matched images to a text file.
• In image search tabs, when searching for images, image boundaries are now shown in different colors which can be changed by the user by right-clicking.
• When starting SBMT, if the password.txt file cannot be found, a warning is printed out to the console.
• In Tracks tab added ability to load OLA Level 2 format.
• [New Horizons team only] Added MVIC tab to Jupiter body and moons for viewing MVIC data.
• [New Horizons team only] Added Imaging tab to Pluto and Charon models for viewing latest LORRI images.

January 21, 2015

• Added Stooke Eros image map (available at http://sbn.psi.edu/pds/resource/stookemaps.html) to Eros shape models (Gaskell, Thomas, NLR, NAV). There is now a "Show Image Map" checkbox in the leftmost tab for each of these shape models.
• Now applying flat field correction to Itokawa AMICA images.

December 30, 2014

• Fixed issue performing search queries.
• At bottom is Statistics information on leftmost tab, added new button for showing additional statistics. These statistics take longer to compute so are not shown by default.
• Added control in Eros Lineament tab for changing line width of lineaments.

December 4, 2014

• In NLR, LIDAR, and Tracks tabs, now displaying both UTC and ET of lidar point in status bar when user clicks on lidar point.
• In Tracks tab, added support for loading track in binary format. Previously only text format was supported. See the user guide for description of the allowed formats.

October 31, 2014

• Changed error shown for lidar tracks to be RMS (root mean square) in NLR, LIDAR, and Tracks tabs.
• Added 3 new shape models (Pallas, Daphne, and Hermione) from http://benoit.carry.free.fr/database/shapemodels.php.
• Added Mapmaker tab to Vesta.

August 27, 2014

• Fixed problem which sometimes occured in previous release when loading the same shape model from the command line multiple times in which SBMT would display a blank window.

August 13, 2014

• Added units to labels in shape model importer dialog.
• In the Mapmaker tab, changed max half size to 512 rather then 513 since 513 causes array out of bounds error in mapmaker fortran code.
• When launching the SBMT on the command line, the program now takes one optional argument, namely a path to a shape model. If such an argument is specified, the shape model is loaded and displayed rather than the default Eros shape model. This is similar to importing a custom shape model except that when loading the shape model via the command line, the shape model is only available temporarily for that run of the tool and is not saved to disk for future runs of the tool as is the case when importing the shape model. The format of the shape model is determined based on the extension of the file as follows:
  • OBJ format valid extensions: .obj, .wf
  • Gaskell PLT format valid extensions: .pds, .plt, .tab
  • VTK format valid extensions: .vtk
  Note that case is ignored. This feature is only supported on Mac and Linux platforms.
• Created new independent tab called "Tracks" for showing custom lidar tracks. Therefore, removed the "Load Track" button for loading custom tracks from existing lidar search panel such as for NLR. This new tab is available for all shape models.

May 27, 2014

• In image properties window, adding spacecraft position, orientation, camera FOV, and sun vector to property list.
• In image search panel, changed PDS to read SPICE in pointing drop down menu (since that better describes it).
• In File menu, added option for exporting shape model to STL format.
• Improved centering of structures (when using options when right-clicking on a structure). There are now 2 options: 1) center in window and move up close to structure and 2) center in window but preserve original distance.
• Fixed problem in which some circles would not draw.
• Added 15 more Hudson shape models (YORP, WT24, SK, Ra-Shalom, Nereus, Mithra, KW4 Alpha, KW4 Beta, HW1, EV5, CE26 Alpha, CC Alpha, Betulia, DA Prograde, DA Retrograde). Available from http://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroids/shapes/shapes.html.
• Added N key press shortcut for spinning view along boresight so that Z axis is up.
• Added link to data folder on SBMT home page.
• Fixed wrong orientation of triangles in Mapmaker renderer view.
• In Imaging search panels, changed label to read Search by Filename (instead of Search by ID) since we now do text search in filename. This means that when you enter a search term, it does not need to be an integer (as was the case previously). It can be any part of the filename. For example, if you are searching for MSI image M0131076086F4_2P_IOF_DBL.FIT, you can now enter the full name "M0131076086F4_2P_IOF_DBL.FIT" (without quotes) rather than "131076086". In addition you can enter any part of the name, and all images that contain the text entered in the filename, will be returned. For example, if you enter "M013", then all images beginning with M013 will be returned. If you leave the field empty, all images in the database with the specified pointing will be returned.
• In Mapmaker rendering view, adding export to OBJ format in File menu (was missing previously).

April 9, 2014

• Added shape models of Jupiter, Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io along with LORRI images from New Horizons flyby in 2007. These shape models are simple ellipsoid models and have been added for the benefit of the New Horizons team in preparation of the Pluto flyby in 2015.
• Also added preliminary shape models of Pluto and its 5 moons in preparation of the Pluto flyby in 2015.

March 25, 2014

• When saving lidar tracks to file (by right-clicking on a track and selecting one of the Save Track options), a new column is written out listing the range of each lidar point.
• When running the Mapmaker tool, the output maplet file is now written out in FITS format. There is no label file saved out anymore but some information about the maplet is saved in the header portion of the FITS file. Also when loading in a maplet file (by clicking the Load button in the Mapmaker tab), the file must now be in FITS format.

February 14, 2014

• When saving out polygons to file, area is now written out as well. Note though that if the area was not already computed by right-clicking on a polygon and clicking "Display Interior" then zero is written out. Thus you must for click "Display Interior" for a polygon for the correct area to be saved to the file. Also, when loading polygons from a file, the area saved in the file is displayed in the table (even though "Display Interior" has not been clicked).
• Deimos images are now indexed in the database so that search options work now.

January 30, 2014

• Fixed performance issue when drawing large polygons which still remained in previous release. Drawing polygons should now be as fast as drawing paths, even with polygons with hundreds of vertices. Displaying the interior of polygons with many vertices is still very slow though.
• Fixed bug in which popup menu would not appear when right-clicking on paths.

January 28, 2014

• Improved performance somewhat when drawing large polygon structures. By default interior of polygon is now not displayed. To display the interior, right-click on a polygon and select "Display Interior". At this point, the area of the polygon will be calculated and shown in the table. As soon as you start editing again, the interior of the polygon will no longer be shown and will only reappear if you click "Display Interior" again. Performance still degrades with large polygons but is not as bad as previously. We hope to improve this further in the near future.

December 26, 2013

• Fixed problem which prevented importing custom plate data for custom shape models.
• Changed how plate data are saved out so that all plate data is saved out to a single file including information about plates such as as area and coordinates of center of plate.
• Added plate data (slope, elevation, acceleration, potential) to most shape models.
• Added new Steins, Hartley, Lutetia, Bennu, Dione, Tethys, Mimas and Phoebe shape models which were recently delivered to the PDS. Dione and Tethys are now no longer restricted to only certain accounts.
• Added support for loading multiple custom lidar tracks in lidar search panel at once (when pressing "Load Tracks From Files...").
• Changed "Source:" to "Pointing:" in image search tabs.
• In lidar browse panels, show start and stop times of each file.
• Changed title of main window to display name of shape model currently being viewed.
• Added option in Help menu for opening web page listing sources of all data.
• [OSIRIS-REx team only] Added OLA tab to Bennu shape model and added some simulated lidar data.

September 23, 2013

• Added options in the Preferences panel for changing the look of the orientation axes such as the color, size, font size and color, thickness, and cone (tip) size and radius.
• Added option in Camera dialog (available in File menu) for using orthographic projection in renderer (previously only perspective projection was supported).

August 30, 2013

• In the mapmaker view window, you can now right click on a profile and an option called "Save Profile" will appear. (Previously there were several options but none of them worked). This will invoke the gravity program which will compute the acceleration, potential, elevation and slope at all points along the profile using the shape model at the resolution currently set for, say, the Eros shape model. The file will be in CSV format. Note that the save profile option is similar to the save profile option in the main renderer view (when you right click on a path with exactly 2 points) except that the latter does yet not currently use the gravity program but instead gets the gravity values from the plate data closest to the points.
• Fixed bug when importing new shape models which required you to restart the tool to view the new shape model. This is no longer required.
• Added mapmaker tab back to Bennu shape model (had accidentally removed it)
• Added slope, elevation, acceleration, potential data for Mathilde and fixed a problem that occurred when generating backplanes for the MSI image currently available.
• Fixed a bug which prevented importing custom plate data

July 8, 2013

• Added Imaging tab to Thomas Deimos shape model with SPICE derived Viking and HRSC (framing camera only) images. Unfortunately, the pointing is not very accurate so the images do not line up with the asteroid. We are working on improving this. Simply press the Search button to see a list of images as the search options do not work yet.
• Added generation of backplanes label files for all cameras. Previously backplane label files were only being generated for MSI and AMICA images.
• Added slope, elevation, gravitation acceleration and potential plate data for Ida and Gaspra.

July 3, 2013

• When plotting elevation, acceleration and potential of a lidar track (which you can do by right-clicking on a track and selecting "Plot Track..." in the menu), the shape model used when computing the plots values is at the same resolution as is currently viewed in the renderer. Previously, the lowest resolution shape model was always used regardless of the current resolution. Because of this change, plotting will take much longer when using high resolution shape models. Also changed algorithm to use Werner method rather than Cheng method since the former is more accurate, though it is slower.
• Fixed problem in MSI backplanes label file where MSI backplanes could not be loaded into ISIS.

June 19, 2013

• Fixed problem on Mac and Linux platforms where tool would not start if placed in folder with a space in its path.
• When saving out profile of a path (i.e. when right-clicking on a path with only 2 control points and clicking "Save Profile..." in the popup menu), now cartesian coordinates, latitude/longitude/radius, and all plate data (as listed in the leftmost tab in the Plate Coloring section) along the profile are saved out to separate columns in a CSV file.
• Changed scale bar in renderer to have black text on white background (partially transparent) with text centered justified.
• When right-clicking on an image and clicking Properties in the popup menu, the surface area of the image footprint is shown in the list of properties.

June 6, 2013

• Added MEX HRSC images (framing camera only) for Phobos using SPICE pointing data. In the Imaging tab for Phobos, in the source drop down menu, select "PDS derived" and just click search and you'll see a list of 1655 images (these images are not indexed in the database so the other search options do not work). Unfortunately, these images are not registered very well with the asteroid, probably due to imprecisions in the SPICE kernels, and do not line up well with the surface features. We are working on improving this.

May 30, 2013

• Added 3 new shape models of Eros, available at http://sbn.psi.edu/pds/resource/nearbrowse.html. They are: 1. Peter Thomas' model based on MSI images (6 resolution levels), 2. NAV Plate Model, and 3. NLR Shape Data.
• Added option in preferences for changing background color of renderer view.

May 8, 2013

• Reorganized list of shape models in View menu.

April 30, 2013

• Added slope, elevation, gravitation acceleration and potential plate data for Phoebe and Mimas.
• Added Robert Gaskell's shape models of Dione, Rhea, Tethys, Hyperion, and Tempel 1. These are experimental and only available to several accounts.
• Added Imaging Data for Phoebe and Mimas. These images have not yet been indexed in the database, so simply press the search button and all the available images will be listed. The images listed are those Robert Gaskell used to create the shape model.

April 17, 2013

• Phobos images have been indexed in the database so search options are now functional.
• Added slope, elevation, gravitation acceleration and potential plate data for Phobos.
• Added option in File menu for exporting currently shown shape model to Wavefront OBJ format.

March 5, 2013

• Added new tab to Phobos shape model for mapping Viking and Phobos 2 images. The various search options are not functional yet. Simply click the Search button to show a list of available images.
• Fixed problem where checkbox to show image map would appear for some shape models for which there was none.

Feb 15, 2013

• Added Robert Gaskell's Lutetia shape model. This shape model, however, has not yet been released to the public so most users will not be able to access it yet (only a few accounts have access to it).

January 24, 2013

• There are now options in the main leftmost tab of each view for customization of the plate data by the user. To customize plate data, click the Customize button. This will allow users to load their own plate data for both built-in and imported shape models (previously it was only possible to customize plate data for imported models. When importing new shape models, you will no longer see the options for loading custom plate data since this functionality is now available in the main tab of each view.) Also made all views support RGB false coloring.
• Added buttons in Images tab for moving items up and down. Also made the Delete button delete all selected items.
• Added ability to change the name of an image in Images panel and show name in image list.
• Implemented multi-selection for structures. You can now select multiple structures in the structures list and apply certain operations to all the selected structures (such as Delete or change color). To select multiple structures, you need to click on the items with the mouse while holding down the Shift or Control (Command on Mac) key (with the shift key, a single contiguous block of items will be selected and with the Control or Command key, multiple contiguous blocks can be selected). Note also that multiple structures can be selected in the renderer itself as well by holding down the shift or control (command on Mac) key.
• Added option for hiding subset of structures by right-clicking on structures and clicking Hide. Hidden structures are now grayed out.
• Added option for centering a structure in the window (similar to the way images can be centered) by right-clicking on a structure and clicking Center in Window. After centering a structure the shape model will be oriented such that the top of the window points in the direction of the north pole.
• Added ability to change selection color in preferences.

October 30, 2012

• Added support for multi-selection in image lists popup menu. This works with the list of images that's returned when doing a search (MSI, AMICA, etc) as well as the list of images in the Images tab. To select multiple images, you need to click on the items with the mouse while holding down the Shift or Control (Command on Mac) key (with the shift key, a single contiguous block of items will be selected and with the Control or Command key, multiple contiguous blocks can be selected).
• Changed how drawing of ellipses is done so that now it is similar to circles in that you click 3 point and an ellipse is drawn to fit them. Also fixed earlier problem where interactive changing of the flattening did not always follow the current mouse position exactly. Also added warning info about new way to create ellipses

October 9, 2012

• Fixed problem where NIS custom formulas did not allow dividing by a band (e.g. B01/B02 was flagged as invalid)

September 2012

• Added the ability to save out the plate data. For the built-in shape models, there is a button in the leftmost tab called Save Plate Data. For the mapmaker view, the option is in the File menu. This saves out the currently shown plate data set to a text file, where each line has the value for the corresponding plate.
• Updated the tool so that now Windows users can run the mapmaker program (tested only on Windows 7--may not work on previous versions of Windows).
• Added the ability to save out plate data for the interiors of polygons, circles, and ellipses. If you right-click on one of these structures, there is now an option called "Save plate data inside..." If you click it, it will save out a text file with the following columns: 1. plate id the integer id of the plate of the shape model. 2. latitude at center of plate. 3. longitude at center of plate. 4. slope at center of plate. 5. elevation at center of plate. 6. gravitational acceleration at center of plate. 7. gravitational potential slope at center of plate. Note that if a plate from the shape model is only partially inside the polygon, ellipse or circle, then it still gets saved out to the file. Thus there may be some plates saved out that are not exactly inside the structure.
• added ability to delete individual structures by pressing delete or backspace key.
• added Hide All and Show All buttons to structure mapping panels to temporarily show and hide all structures, without deleting them. Still working on supporting hiding/showing of individual structures.
• when loading structures from file and there are already structures drawn, user is now prompted if they want to append to or overwrite existing structures. This allows loading more than 1 file at a time without needing to combine them into a single file.
• added ability to change line thickness and color of maplet boundary.
• In lidar panels (for Eros and Itokawa), added options for saving both modified and unmodified tracks.
• In lidar panels (for Eros and Itokawa), added options for saving all visible tracks at once.
• In the NIS panel for Eros, you can now use RGB color to color NIS footprints, unlike previously where only grayscale was supported.
• In the NIS panel for Eros, you can now save out an individual NIS spectrum to a text file (by right clicking on a spectrum in the list or on the footprint in the renderer).
• In the NIS panel for Eros, 3 requested formulas were added to the very end of the list of available bands in drop down menus. You should see "B36 - B05", "B01 - B05", and "B52 - B36" at the end of the list. You can now select these when coloring NIS spectra.
• In the NIS panel for Eros, you can now create your own custom formulas. There is a new button named "Custom Formulas..." in the NIS panel. Click on it and a dialog will open showing your list of formulas. Click 'Add' and another dialog will appear allowing you to input your formula. You can use the variables B01 through B64 to refer to individual bands. Standard math and trigonometric functions should work. E.g. (B21-B01)*sin(B33)/sqrt(2.5). When you close the first dialog, the custom formulas are added to the dropdown list from which to choose from. The list of formulas is saved from session to session so you won't lose your work when you close the tool.

August 2012

• A new polygons tab has been created for drawing polygon structures. This works similar to the Paths shape and works by placing and dragging control points. The surface area and perimeter length are shown in the table on the left for each polygon. Both convex and concave polygons are supported. However, polygons with crossovers are not drawn correctly and should be avoided (though the tool will not prevent it). Out of all the shapes, polygons are the most expensive to render. Also, as more control points are added, the longer it takes to render.
• In the structures tab, a new button is provided on the bottom for changing line thickness of structures. This is enabled for all shape types with the exception of Points.
• In the lidar search tab, there is now a button called "Translate Tracks...". When pressed, a dialog window will open allowing you to explicitly specify the translation (3 cartesian coordinates in kilometers). All tracks will then get shifted by this amount.
• In the lidar search tab, there is now a "Drag Tracks" toggle button. When pressed, a new "drag mode" will be activated which disables standard navigation around the asteroid and allows you to drag the tracks around. As you drag around, the tracks get shifted such that the selected point is moved to the location on the asteroid the mouse is currently positioned over. If there is no selected point, nothing happens. (Note the "selected point" is the point shown in blue after clicking and for which some information about it is shown in the status bar)
• In the lidar search tabs, there is a new checkbox called "Show Track Error". When pressed, the error of the displaced tracks is shown to the right of the checkbox. This error is computed as the mean distance between each lidar point and its closest point on the asteroid (expressed in km). This error is computed using only the visible tracks, not tracks that are currently hidden. This error is updated every time you make a change to the tracks, e.g. change translation or offset or hide/show a track. There may be a performance penalty for calculating the error which is why this option is provided to disable it. (Note that if you change the resolution level of the asteroid, the error does not get updated. You will then need to uncheck and recheck it to show the correct error).
• In the lidar search tabs, there is now an option for loading a track you previously saved to disk (using the "Save Track..." option). Click this button, choose the track file and the track will load and replace any existing tracks in the list. Note that it is currently only possible to have a single track loaded from file at a time. You cannot load more than one track at a time from files.
• Fixed a bug which prevented running the tool using Java version 7 on some Linux systems.
• When saving lidar tracks (by right clicking on a track and clicking Save track), you can now choose between saving the original track or the track with the translation and radial offset applied.
• When plotting a track (by right clicking on a track and clicking Save track), 3 sets of plots are now displayed. Previously only potential vs distance and time was shown, but now, in addition, elevation and gravitation acceleration vs distance and time are shown. Each is show in a separate window. In addition it is possible to save out the data of these plots to a text file using the "Export Data..." option in the File menu of each plot window.

July 2012

• For paths that consists of exactly 2 control points, you can right-click on it and select an option for saving a profile. A profile is a file which contains elevation data vs distance along the path. The file is formatted as a CSV file with the first column being distance and the second elevation. If the current shape model contains elevation data for each plate (which you would normally use to color the shape model in the leftmost tab), then that is used. If no elevation is available, then the user is prompted asking if the tool should evaluate elevation as the distance between a point on the path and the center of the asteroid. While not as accurate as true elevation data, this may be acceptable for bodies that have a circular shape.
• Added options when right-clicking on a coordinate grid for changing its color and line thickness.
• In the Camera dialog (available from the File menu) it is now possible to set the distance of the virtual camera to the center of the asteroid. The direction of the camera is not affected when changing this value.
• In the Preferences dialog it is now possible to set the "Motion Factor" of the mouse wheel. This factor controls the speed of zooming in and out with the mouse wheel. Larger values result in faster speeds and smaller values result in slower speeds. The default value is 1. Negative values reverse the direction of the zoom (i.e. zoom out becomes zoom in and zoom in becomes zoom out).
• Help contents now load in a web browser rather than a separate window.
• Added "Recent Changes" option to Help menu which opens this page in a web browser.

June 2012

• When right-clicking on an image, there is now an option to change its opacity
• It is now possible to delete an individual vertex from a Path (previously, it was necessary to delete the entire path and start again). To delete a vertex, press the Delete or Backspace key while in Edit mode and the vertex that is blue will be deleted. There's only one vertex at a time that's blue, all others are red. The blue vertex represents the "current" vertex. To change the current vertex, simply click on a new vertex while hovering over it (so that the cursor changes to a hand shape).
• Added option to export mapmaker maplet to a plate file.
• In the File menu, there is now an option to automatically save 6 images of views along both directions of all 3 axes. This option will automatically reorient the view to successively point the virtual camera in the positive x, negative x, positive y, negative y, positive z, and negative z directions and save an image for each view. When prompted to choose a file name in the dialog, the name you choose will be modified to indicate each of the six views. For example, if you choose the name "image.png", then the following six files will get saved out: "image+x.png", "image-x.png", "image+y.png", "image-y.png", "image+z.png", and "image-z.png".

• There is now a new tab called "Images" for each View to the right of the Structures tab, for both built-in and custom models, so instead of specifying images when you create a new custom shape model (which previously was the only to import custom images), you would now do it in the Images tab, which shows a list of the images you've added. To add a new image, press "New" and a dialog will appear in which you can specify the image and projection parameters. To edit an existing image, click the "Edit" button. And to remove an image from the list press "Delete from List". Adding an image doesn't immediately make it visible on the renderer. To view it, right-click on the image in the list, and press Map Image. To remove it, right-click and press Map Image again (clicking Hide also removes it--the difference is that Map does all the computation needed to map the image to view unlike toggling the Hide option, so using the Hide option is faster). To remove all images from the renderer (not from the list), press the "Remove All from View".

  The menu that appears when you right-click is the same as the one for the MSI and AMICA images, though some options are not enabled. The "Properties" option allows you to view a 2D view of the image as well as change the contrast (however, contrast stretching is currently only supported for grayscale images).

  In addition to the cylindrical projection, I've also added the ability to use a perspective projection, which is the same projection used to map the original spacecraft images (i.e. MSI or AMICA). To do this you need to provide a sumfile in the format that Bob Gaskell uses which contains the position and orientation of the spacecraft. You also need to provide the angular field of view of the camera in degrees for both dimensions (e.g. for AMICA images both field of views would be 5.839083 degrees)

  The "Show Image Map" checkbox which you previously would check to show the images is no longer present in the custom shape models. It is present, however, in several of the built-in models and is used to simply show a single image of the entire asteroid.

  Existing lists of images (from custom imported shape models) should show up in the list of the Images tab. If this is not the case, please let me know.

  Some current limitations to be aware of which I hope to address:

  • When doing a perspective projection, the image must be FITS format, unlike a cylindrical projection where the image can be png, jpg, tiff, etc. (the typical formats), though not FITS.
  • As mentioned already, the adjusting contrast stretching is only available for single channel images, not color images. If the image is really grayscale but stored as a color image (i.e. the 3 channels are the same), you will need to use some image processing software to convert it to a true grayscale format. I hope to add stretching for color images as well.
• When rescaling data range of plate data (e.g. Elevation or slope), it is now possible to set the min and max values to be less than min value of the data or greater than the max value of the data, respectively.
• In the File menu, there is now a new Camera option which opens a dialog in which you can specify vertical field of view of the virtual camera. The default value is 30 degrees. Note that the field of view changes if you right click on an MSI or AMICA image and press "Center in Window". When you do that, the field of view changes to the field of view of the MSI or AMICA camera.
• The Statistics label (at the bottom of the leftmost tab for each view) is now selectable, so it is now possible to copy and paste the values to another program (with Ctrl-C).
• added options to preferences for setting the pick tolerance
• There is now and option in the Preferences dialog to switch between a "Trackball Interactor Style" and a "Joystick Interactor Style". Until now, only the "Trackball" style has been used by the tool. The Joystick style provides a different way to navigate around the asteroid. One of things you can do with Joystick style is to continuously spin the asteroid around, while holding down the left mouse button.
• Added SSI tab for Ida and Gaspra, and MSI tab for Mathilde. Only a few images are currently available for these asteroids (Simply click Search to show a list of images--all the search options are currently ignored). Work on adding the remaining images is currently in progress.

• Some of the AMICA images of Itokawa are not registered well, especially the ones acquired on Nov 12 and Nov 19. We have begun work on correcting some of these misregistered images and you can view the currently available corrected images by selecting "Corrected" from the Source dropdown menu at the top of the AMICA tab and then pressing Search (all the search options are ignored in this case). Work on adding additional corrected images is currently in progress.

April 2012

• added requested feature to show a scale bar on the view to indicate size of asteroid at current zoom
• added option for exporting shape model to plt format
• Fixed crash which sometimes occurred when changing orientation axes properties in Preferences dialog.
• Added new lighting options in a new Preferences dialog.

March 2012

• Added support for loading in custom plate data when importing a custom shape model.
• Added support for arbitrary positioning of custom images on custom non-ellipsoidal shape models. Previously images on custom non-ellipsoidal shape models were required to cover the entire model. Also removed all restrictions on the values for longitudes.

February 2012

• Added many new shape models to tool such as models by Thomas and Stooke as well as radar based shape models. All of these were obtained from the PDS.

January 2012

• Added support for explicitly changing the normal offset (shift) of an image or structure away from the shape model with a new dialog.
• Improved lidar search capability for both Eros and Itokawa. Has more features which should hopefully make it easier to find, view, and export lidar tracks.
• Lidar browse functionality now includes options for showing spacecraft.
• Added unfiltered and optimized versions of Itokawa Lidar data for both searching and browsing.
• Added extent of small body in statistics label.
• Added option when searching for "PDS derived" images to exclude Gaskell images.

October 2011

• Added Itokawa LIDAR data (new tab).

September 2011

• Fixed problem where wrong FOV size was being used for Itokawa images causing incorrect shifts in images.
• When saving ellipse structures, added column for orientation angle of ellipse relative to gravity vector (for shape models for which such data is available).
• Improved documentation of structure file formats.
• Changed cursor to crosshairs when drawing structures.
• When drawing structures, increased sensitivity when hovering over existing structures.
• When drawing a circle (by clicking 3 points on perimeter), interacting with other circles is disabled after the first point has been clicked until the completion of the circle.
• Fixed inability to save structures when no backplane data is available.
• Use superscripts for exponents in Statistics label.
• Fixed problem where values on color bar would not get updated when changing resolution level.
• Added backplanes for very high resolution Itokawa shape model (previously, backplanes were a subsampled version of the high resolution model).
• Added ability to map multiple images to a custom shape model.
• Added ability to edit and duplicate a custom shape model.

August 2011

• Added more Itokawa images to AMICA search panels. Pointing info of these images are derived from SPICE kernel files.
• Added new Hide Image option to image context menu for temporarily hiding an image
• Added ability to create circle simply by clicking on any 3 points on its perimeter.
• Fixed problem with distortions appearing around edges of images mapped to custom shape models.
• Removed "seam" that appeared on images mapped to shape model along zero-longitude line.
• Added new option to set focal point of camera by pressing the c key. Focal point is set to point in 3D view the cursor is currently over.

July 2011

• Added ability to import custom shape models into tool and map an image.
• Fixed problem where 8-bit Itokawa AMICA images were not being displayed correctly.
• Fixed problem where export to image was not working after switching to a different asteroid.
• Added slope/elevation/gravity data for medium and high resolution shape models of Itokawa.
• Speed improvement in loading circles/ellipses/points on Itokawa.
• New Delete All button in structures tab for deleting all structures at once.
• Fixed problem with computation of incidence and emission backplanes for MSI and AMICA images.
• Fixed problem where old circle structure format could not be loaded into new ellipse tab.