# Deep Learning based Systems for Crater Detection: A Review

Source: [Deep Learning based Systems for Crater Detection: A Review](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa70da1e209131cea4db05>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2025-10-26T01:51:52.116Z

Authors: Atal Tewari, K Prateek, Amrita Singh, Nitin Khanna

Published: 2023-09-28T18:06:15.000Z

## Abstract

Craters are one of the most prominent features on planetary surfaces, used in applications such as age estimation, hazard detection, and spacecraft navigation. Crater detection is a challenging problem due to various aspects, including complex crater characteristics such as varying sizes and shapes, data resolution, and planetary data types. Similar to other computer vision tasks, deep learning-based approaches have significantly impacted research on crater detection in recent years. This survey aims to assist researchers in this field by examining the development of deep learning-based crater detection algorithms (CDAs). The review includes over 140 research works covering diverse crater detection approaches, including planetary data, craters database, and evaluation metrics. To be specific, we discuss the challenges in crater detection due to the complex properties of the craters and survey the DL-based CDAs by categorizing them into three parts: (a) semantic segmentation-based, (b) object detection-based, and (c) classification-based. Additionally, we have conducted training and testing of all the semantic segmentation-based CDAs on a common dataset to evaluate the effectiveness of each architecture for crater detection and its potential applications. Finally, we have provided recommendations for potential future works.

## Recorded benchmark results

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07727>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07727.pdf>)