Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Lunar impact crater identification and age estimation with Chang’E data by deep and transfer learning

  • Chen Yang,
  • Haishi Zhao,
  • Lorenzo Bruzzone,
  • Jon Atli Benediktsson,
  • Yanchun Liang,
  • Bin Liu,
  • Xingguo Zeng,
  • Renchu Guan,
  • Chunlai Li,
  • Ziyuan Ouyang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20215-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Using Chang’E data, the authors here identify more than 109,000 previously unrecognized lunar craters and date almost 19,000 craters based on transfer learning with deep neural networks. A new lunar crater database is derived and distributed to the planetary community.