IMG2PNG, PDS/FITS to PNG conversion |
IMG2PNG, PDS/FITS to PNG conversion |
Feb 16 2008, 02:04 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2254 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
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. |
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Dec 1 2010, 11:30 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2254 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
At last I have started rewriting my PDS file parsing code from scratch - this is something I have wanted to do for a long time. The core of the code in the current version of IMG2PNG is really ancient. It's one of the very first pieces of code I wrote in the C++ programming language back in 1993 or so. Because of this it isn't particularly well written. Since then I have also made countless changes and additions to it so it has become messy as hell and requires far more work to maintain than it should require (probably about 100 times (!) more than it should for the bug reported above by Ian). Almost nothing is trivial to fix. What this means is that the bugs/issues mentioned above by Ian and Doug will not be fixed until a version of IMG2PNG utilizing the new PDS file parsing code appears. There will also be some LRO-related fixes in that new version.
I'm not exactly sure when I will be able to release the new version of IMG2PNG because I'm working on lots of stuff in parallel - hopefully within two months though. |
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