MOPEX: a software package for astronomical image processing and visualization

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: MOPEX: a software package for astronomical image processing and visualization
المؤلفون: Hartley Booth, David Makovoz, Trey Roby, I. Khan
المصدر: SPIE Proceedings.
بيانات النشر: SPIE, 2006.
سنة النشر: 2006
مصطلحات موضوعية: Software, Computer science, business.industry, Computer graphics (images), Digital image processing, Web page, System integration, Image registration, Image processing, business, Pipeline (software), Visualization
الوصف: We present MOPEX - a software package for astronomical image processing and display. The package is a combination of command-line driven image processing software written in C/C++ with a Java-based GUI. The main image processing capabilities include creating mosaic images, image registration, background matching, point source extraction, as well as a number of minor image processing tasks. The combination of the image processing and display capabilities allows for much more intuitive and efficient way of performing image processing. The GUI allows for the control over the image processing and display to be closely intertwined. Parameter setting, validation, and specific processing options are entered by the user through a set of intuitive dialog boxes. Visualization feeds back into further processing by providing a prompt feedback of the processing results. The GUI also allows for further analysis by accessing and displaying data from existing image and catalog servers using a virtual observatory approach. Even though originally designed for the Spitzer Space Telescope mission, a lot of functionalities are of general usefulness and can be used for working with existing astronomical data and for new missions. The software used in the package has undergone intensive testing and benefited greatly from effective software reuse. The visualization part has been used for observation planning for both the Spitzer and Herschel Space Telescopes as part the tool Spot. The visualization capabilities of Spot have been enhanced and integrated with the image processing functionality of the command-line driven MOPEX. The image processing software is used in the Spitzer automated pipeline processing, which has been in operation for nearly 3 years. The image processing capabilities have also been tested in off-line processing by numerous astronomers at various institutions around the world. The package is multi-platform and includes automatic update capabilities. The software package has been developed by a small group of software developers and scientists at the Spitzer Science Center. It is available for distribution at the Spitzer Science Center web page.
تدمد: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.672536
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::25f4490da1d750c2c525102cbb129aef
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672536
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........25f4490da1d750c2c525102cbb129aef
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:0277786X
DOI:10.1117/12.672536