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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Aug 14 2014, 05:15 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
A lot of people treat the pds images as "raw" files
some have a text header on the binary image others are just binary images with detached headers most good text editors can READ ONLY the text headers in them by "good" i mean REAL editors like emacs ,vi, gedit,kate or on windows SciTE or the scite based one " Notepad++" or a "hex" editor like hexedit or hxd http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ now most of the data in the PDS archives is in 32bit floating point older files might be 16bit singed lsb or msb so you need software that can work with 32bit floating point photoshop works with 16 bit images( and 8 bit) , not 32 bit as above there are some programs that WILL also run on windows Nip2/vips and Gmic Imagemagick Q16 will open 16 bit on windows and linux and apple . but not 32 bit images |
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