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Creating Elevation Profiles 

This page contains directions for displaying elevations on a chart. See the example provided below. Only numeric maps will create profiles. Recommended: Keep Colorized Elevation Layer on.

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New Profile layer features update providing greater flexibility and precisions    12/12/24

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  1. Open JMARS

  2. Click on an area of interest and Zoom in. Select the hand icon in the top menu to move around in the window. Right click and choose "Center Window" or "Center and zoom for quick location change.

  3. Go to the tool bar. Choose the profile icon. 

  4. Click to start drawing a line where you want a profile. A square indicates the beginning. Double click to end  and single click to change direction. Repeat to draw more profiles.

  5. Click on the arrow icon in the tools menu. 

  6. To see your profile(s), right click on your profile line and choose “Add profile [x] to existing chart”. This opens a "View and Configure Chart".

  7. Click "CHART" to see profiles. Profiles also opens by clicking on the Quick Access profile icon in the lower left corner below the layers.

  8. Click "CONFIGURATION" to choose profile options: You may compare multiple profiles using 1 data source or you can compare multiple data sources for 1 profile. 

    1. Click "ADD PROFILES" to select, add or hide profiles or "SELECT NUMERIC DATA" to change data source, 
    2. ​To compare data souces for a profile, choose the button under "COMPARISON TYPE", "Compare Numeric Sources","SELECT NUMERIC DATA" to change or compare numeric data. A recommended data set is "HRSC MOLA Blended DEM 200mv2/"
    3. ​You can change the color and line width of the profile line in the main view by right clicking anywhere in the main screen and selecting manage profiles. 

Radial/Crater Profile lines 

This page contains directions to displaying elevations outward from a central point. This tool can be used to make radial profiles of any circular area such as for craters, volcanos, a section of a dune field, or a landing zone.  Only numeric maps will create profiles.

  1. Open JMARS

  2. Zoom in crater or area of interest (AOI).

  3. Click the 3 perpendicular dots on the blue "Layer" label in the Layer manager. Choose "Crater Counting".

  4. Move your curser to the center of your AOI and Zoom in (scroll on mouse) until the back circle radius is on your AOI. It is helpful to hold the shift key as you scroll to zoom in smaller increments.  Click and then right click and select "Select mode". 

  5. Double click on "Crater Counting" layer in the layer manager. A "Crater Counting Options window opens. Click/select row of AOI. Click "Open Profile Viewer" to view the profiles charted from the center out and to adjust options for "Select Numeric Source", number of lines, length of lines, and angular offset, as desired. See Options and video tutorial below for more options. 

  6. To add a new circle, right click in the main window, choose crater mode, add mode. To select a drawn circle, use the curser tool, click inside the circle.

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Options:

  1. In the "Crater Counting Options", To delete the crater fill, click on "Display". Uncheck: "Fill Craters".  More help

  2. Recommended Numeric Source: "HRSC MOLA Blended DEM 200mv2" This is a higher resolution graph.

  3. There are many other options in the focus panel: “Crater Counting Options” (double click on layer to open), such as selecting crater, holding the control key and scrolling the mouse to change the crater and crater outline color.

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*Also see the video tutorial published by https://jmars.mars.asu.edu/radialProfiles and JMARS Demo - Radial Profiling Tool in the Crater Counting Layer 2/2023

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