A Global Database of Pitted Cones on Mars for Research on Martian Volcanism

Abstract

Abstract This study presents a global database of pitted cones on Mars. This database was created using an active deep-learning approach based on a global mosaic of Mars Context Camera (CTX) images, followed by extensive manual verification. The global database contains 250,547 pitted cones along with their central coordinates and diameters. 94.2% of the pitted cones have diameters ranging from 100 m to 1 km. Most of them are in the northern lowlands, while some are scattered in the southern highlands. Systematic evaluation of the extracted pitted cones is performed in Isidis Planitia, Acidalia Planitia, and Cerberus Palus on Mars. The results reveal that the precision ranges from 79.2% to 85.6%, and the recall rate ranges from 62.4% to 87.7%, indicating a varying among regions but satisfactory performance. Manual digitizing evaluation indicates that over 94.1% of manual labels by different annotators have a differentiation rate of 10%, showing promising precision and consistency. This global database can facilitate further research on the origin and evolution of pitted cones on Mars.