Identifying Earth Locations that Analog Locations on Mars

Ranking Earth locations by similarity to any location on Mars.

Start Method

Priorities

    Mars target

    Mars

    Method

    1. Weight the criteria
    2. Pick a Mars location
    3. Rank Earth locations
    wk = fk·vk / Σj fj·vj scorei = Σk wk·sik / Σk wk
    sik
    Similarity of location i on criterion k
    fk
    Your importance
    vk
    Spread of sk across locations
    Similarity criteria
    10
    Named analog sites
    30
    Global grid cells
    1,916
    Grid resolution
    2.5°
    Mars reference regions
    19
    Combined score
    Weighted Gower