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: 2256 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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Feb 10 2011, 05:29 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Here's something I would love IMG2PNG to be able to do: optionally append information from the image's label to its filename. For one example, for a Cassini image, I would love to be able to append OBSERVATION_ID and/or FILTER_NAME to the filename upon conversion, resulting in, for instance, "N1506393206_2_ISS_015HY_MORPHO003_PRIME_20_CL1UV3.png".
It would be cool if IMG2PNG could optionally correct every-other-line truncation in Cassini and Voyager images (any others?) by interpolation. It would also be useful if IMG2PNG might generate a text-formatted table containing label information from all the images processed during a single run. It needn't contain all the information from the label, just selected information to summarize the data -- things like IMAGE_TIME or IMAGE_MID_TIME, FILTER_NAME, OBSERVATION_ID...but I don't know if this would be workable, since there are different "interesting" items from the label for each instrument. A couple of data sets that I have tried to work with recently that have been challenging are the NEAR MSI images and the LCROSS images...but I can't tell you specifically right now what were the problems I was having. I will try to get back to those and let you know. I second machi's request for the ability to optionally have more control over calibration. And, as always, thank you for your work on this immensely valuable application!!! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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