Identify available mailing lists, forums, helpdesks, in the planetary community

[cmarmo (Chiara)]

The planetary community is a rich and diverse environment.
A number of historical resources, mailing lists, helpdesks are available online.
@Trent_Hare recently posted some useful technical questions and answers from USGS astrodiscuss (thanks!! ).
This thread would like to provide a list of those resources and their owners, in order to facilitate cross-posting and a more efficient and open information sharing.

Feel free to suggest new resources in the thread (I’m clearly not up to date… )
Thanks for your collaboration!

• (officially shut down)USGS astrodiscuss
• StereoPipeline Support Forum
• gdal mailing list
• SPICE discussion mailing list
• …

[Trent_Hare]

Virtual MRCTR Office Hours

Virtual MRCTR Office Hours | U.S. Geological Survey

MRCTR Office hours specialize in helping with geologic mapping efforts (largely using ArcGIS Pro), but Sarah is willing to help with most other planetary GIS questions.

For off-line mapping help:

• see Sarah’s User’s Guide to Planetary Image Analysis and Geologic Mapping in ArcGIS Pro.
• More ArcGIS-based tutorials by Tennessee Tech.
• For QGIS mapping support see the GMAP Planetary Geologic Mapping Winter School series.
• For more simple mapping tasks, JMARS might get you started also.
• SPIF and ASU GIS training workshops. The first ASU training workshop is already May 23-26, 2023 but watch out for more. The ASU series features GIS training, ISIS3 training, and a Photogrammetry day.

[dpmayer (David Mayer)]

@cmarmo Astrodiscuss has officially been shut down and the link no longer resolves, so that one can be taken off the list.

[dpmayer (David Mayer)]

The official GitHub for USGS ISIS has a Discussions tab:

DOI-USGS/ISIS3 · Discussions

That’s a good place for users to ask ISIS-specific questions and can provide a segue to opening issues if something a user asks about turns out to be a bug.