Lunar Pit Patrol

Improving the Industry

The space industry was valued at 570 billion dollars in 2023. Astrogeology plays a critical part within the industry regarding the assessment of celestial bodies. key observations such as a planet's age, geography, and composition can be found using crater statistics. These assessments improves the reduction of error when conductiong planetary explorations allowing large investments in equipment to be secured and reducing the destruction of high value cargo when conducting these missions.

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Our Team

Evan Palmisano

Team Lead

A hardworking and dedicated Applied Computer Sciences undergraduate student working towards gaining an entry-level position in the world of autonomous computing. I specialize in drone automation but also enjoy application development and user experience improvements.

Email Contact: ejp243@nau.edu
Ibrahim Hmood

Customer Communicator

I am aiming to get a BS in Software Development. I was raised in Phoenix but was born in Iraq. I came to NAU primarily because I wanted to live somewhat independently.

Email Contact: ih295@nau.edu
Caden Tedeschi

Architect

I am currently a Computer Science undergraduate student working towards a BS in CS. I was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. I wanted to go to NAU since it was close to where I'm from and I enjoy the weather up here much better than Phoenix.

Email Contact: cmt489@nau.edu
Alden Smith

Release Manager

I am currently going for my BS in CS at NAU. My hometown is Ventura, California where the weather is much nicer than here. Came to NAU for several reasons but mostly for the affordable cost of living and education.

Email Contact: aldensmith06@gmail.com
Levi Watlington

Recorder

I'm aiming to get a bachelor's in Computer Science. I have moved around California and Arizona throughout my life.

Email Contact: lbw53@nau.edu
Trent Hare

Capstone Sponsor

As a a cartographer and GIS specialist at the Astrology Science Center for the U.S. Geologic Survey in Flagstaff, AZ., Trent is constantly looking to advance the field of astrogeology.

Email Contact: thare@usgs.gov
Vahid Nikoonejad Fard

Capstone Mentor

As an informatics doctorate, VZahid provided insight, knowledge and guidance to the Lunar Pit Patrol throughout our capstone progression.

Email Contact: vn229@nau.edu
Isaac Shaffer

Capstone Faculty

As the professor for capstone of fall 2024, Isaac provided critical insights to presentational content and its correlation to industry standards.

Email Contact: isaac.shaffer@mau.edu

Project Information

Solution
Our team is developing a Graphical User Interface that accelerates the user's ability to configure settings and view plots. This will improve productivity and enhance the user's experience when working with craterstats.
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Key Requirements
These are our six main requirements we need to keep in mind:
- Application must be intuitive to use and consistent across platforms
- The layout of settings needs to be simple with clear navigation
- The generated plots must be constantly viewable and updated with every setting change
Architecture

Technologies
The Craterstats GUI is built using the following technologies
- Python
- Flet
- shutil
- Anaconda
- Craterstats3 (CLI)
Sponsor
Our sponsor is Trent Hare of the USGS astrogeology department. He is a cartographer and GIS Specialist. The USGS is Astrogeology Science Center is a national resource for the integration of planetary geoscience, cartography, and remote sensing
Source Code
The Craterstats GUI is currently available as a public repository on GitHub.