GIS «THE SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETS» CASE STUDY OF THE ARCGIS PLANET DATA MODEL

The success of extraterrestrial territories exploration depends on not only launched missions and gathered data, but also on data processing and representation. Principles and methodology are discussed for GIS The Solar System Planets development. Actual works on the of Planets study field emphasize on just Data Base building. GIS The Solar System Planets allows integrating available information about planets and celestial bodies from different sources into powerful planetary database (Venus DB, Mars DB, etc.) with effective tools of spatial analyze and representation. The GIS in this case study was based on the data structure from Atlas of the Terrestrial Planets and their Moons. The cartography-oriented approach in planetary data visualization makes this GIS useful for all kind of users: from experts to students. GIS Solar System Planets is developed by researchers from Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK), who worked on the data model since 2003 and resulted in the first major draft of the Planetary Data Model (PDM). The PDM can be usefully for the cartography community because firstly it provides an example of application-specific spatial database structure for assembling, managing, storing and querying planetary data, secondly it can work as template to meet the needs of