IMG2PNG, PDS/FITS to PNG conversion Options

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I decided to create a special thread for this topic. Previously information on IMG2PNG was scattered across various threads here.

I new version of IMG2PNG is now available. For those that don't know, this is a command line uitility that can convert various PDS formatted files to PNGs (8 or 16 bits per pixel depending on the input files).

This utility should work for lots of different PDS files, e.g. MER, Pathfinder, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Stardust, various Mars orbiters, Mariner 9/10 (!), Viking Orbiter, Viking Lander, Magellan, Clementine, Messenger, New Horizons etc.

The major new feature in the new version is the ability to convert FITS files.

IMG2PNG can be downloaded by visiting http://www.mmedia.is/bjj/utils/img2png

Any information on possible bugs welcome.

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I just uploaded a new version of IMG2PNG. This version is important for those of you that use it to calibrate Cassini images as I corrected a nasty bug that resulted in incorrect brightness of the images. For example, this manifested itself in blue images that became too dark relative to the red and green ones. This messed up RGB composites.

There are no changes that affect images from other spacecraft.

As before this can be downloaded at http://www.mmedia.is/bjj/utils/img2png

[djellison]

Another data set, another IMG2PNG challenge

http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/DTM/...SP_002686_1410/

I THING they're 32 bit IMG's - any chance of a tweak and recompile - IMG2PNG goes "Errm - excuse me, these are more than 16bit" and happily produces a 16 bit PNG anyway - which does have the image data in there, but it's stuck right down at the bottom of the histogram and stretching it to get some sensible displacement, I can see that it's got stair-stepping much like using 8 bit displacement maps.

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I'll take a look at this sometime in the next several days. In the meantime it might work to do "img2png -sNNN..." where NNN is some "big" number. This might scale the output intensity to something that makes sense (I haven't tested this yet so I'm not completely sure).

[siravan]

Another data set, another IMG2PNG challenge

http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/DTM/...SP_002686_1410/

I've written a utility program fitsfromimg32.exe, which converts 32 bits IMG files to FITS format. It seems to be doing a good job on these files. If anyone is interested, please send me a message, so that I can email the exe file or the C++ source files.

[djellison]

sNNNN worked in brightening up the resultant 16 bit PNG - but it's got stair stepping in there, where I wouldn't expect it to be.
In an ideal world - I'd have a 16bit PNG that goes from black (low) to white (high) and a text file telling me the actual altitude range between top and bottom so I can scale them appropriately. DAMN - I should have been a code monkey.

It's doable via ISIS3 I think - but ISIS is playing hardball with me today and not even letting me do USGS DEM isis2raw processing. Grrrrr.

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[mhoward]

http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/DTM/...SP_002686_1410/

I must be missing something here. Why do the files in that directory have .jp2 extensions?

[imipak]

CODE

[imipak@localhost] $ file ~/Download/DT2EC_002620_1410_002686_1410_A01.JP2
../Download/DT2EC_002620_1410_002686_1410_A01.JP2: JPEG 2000 image data

[mhoward]

I guess I need to be more clear. Above, we're talking about these files (?) as if they're IMG files. IMG file does not equal JPEG 2000 file, as far as I know.

What am I missing here?

[Phil Stooke]

Stepping around that wee problem for a second, the Kaguya released images, when unzipped, are 32 bit IMGs, are they not?

Phil

[elakdawalla]

One of the files in that directory has an IMG extension...

[siravan]

I've attached a portion of DTEEC_002620_1410_002686_1410_A01.IMG. It is converted into 16 bit gray scale and shrunk 4 times. Note that it is a DEM, showing elevation at the edge of a crater with gullies cutting into the slopes.

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[Phil Stooke]

Ah, now it's starting to make sense... two HiRISE images making a stereo pair (each with a full image and a color strip), and a DEM. That's quite a useful dataset...

Phil

[JohnVV]

the Kaguya released images, when unzipped, are 32 bit IMGs, are they not?

from ghex the LALT_GGT_MAP.IMG is a 32 bit 4byte_float

i used raw2isis to open it

[mhoward]

One of the files in that directory has an IMG extension...

Ah, ok. I completely missed that somehow. Thanks.