JOVIAN SYSTEM DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM PROPOSAL SUMMARY

I have developed and tested high-precision digital image pattern-matching software for the production of high-spatial-resolution wind velocity maps from Galileo feature-track sequences. The proposed effort will provide detailed digital wind velocity maps from seven SSI feature track sequences and for each of the four SSI bandpasses (VLT, NIR, MT1, and MT2) for which coverage was obtained. The digital velocity maps will be made available to the atmospheric sciences community and promise to be important tools for a wide array of Jovian atmosphere dynamical studies. Under guidance from collaborator Don Banfield and with advice from Galileo Team Member, Peter Gierasch, the new data products will be validated and preliminary analyses provided in the context of relevant dynamical processes considered to be operating in Jupiter's atmosphere.