High dynamic range processing of Mars Color Camera images

High dynamic range processing is one of the desired step for images taken with varying exposures for the same area to capture details in dark shadows as well as bright light. Indian Mars Orbiter Mission carrying Mars Color Camera (MCC) has the capability of taking images with varying exposures. Images taken by this camera during Earth Bound Phase of the flight is processed for High Dynamic Range (HDR). Satellite images are good as well as interesting candidate for high dynamic range processing. Low dynamic range (LDR) images needs to be registered a priori, which itself is a challenging task as these images may have cloud pixels, noise, low contrast etc. Significant improvements observed after HDR processing is statistically and visually depicted in this paper as compared to single LDR frames taken by the camera.