Bug#838803: ITP: fitsh -- a software package for astronomical image processing
Package: wnpp
Owner: Andras Pal <apal@szofi.net>
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name : FITSH
Version : 0.9.2
Upstream Author : Andras Pal <apal@szofi.net>
* URL : http://fitsh.net/
* License : GPLv3
Programming Lang: C
Description : A software package for astronomical image processing
FITSH is a full-featured open-source software collection related to
astronomical image analysis and data processing [1]. This package includes set
of executables designed to perform the most essential astronomical image
reduction (and related) steps, including:
- Providing basic information about the images or other FITS data, pixel
statistics
- Conversion of FITS images to more easily presentable formats.
- Querying and modification of FITS header keywords.
- Calibration of raw images, including the masking of bad, saturated or
otherwise unuseable pixels.
- Arithmetic operations on images, both on per-image and per-pixel basis.
- Combination of multiple images into a single one.
- Generic spatial geometric transformations of images (shifting, dilating,
shrinking, clipping, higher order polynomial transformations, ...), including
the registration of images to the same reference frame.
- Generation of artificial images.
- Detection and characterization of stellar profiles.
- Coordinate list manipulation (fit and evaluation of geometric
transformations, point matching, pair matching, cross-matching of catalogues
and source lists, matching by identifiers, ...)
- Instrumental photometry (aperture, image subtraction, analytic profile
modelling, point-spread functions and various other sophisticated combinations
of these).
- Regression analysis and general numeric data manipulation.
- The tasks are optimized for shell-level parallel processing.
This package will maintained within the Debian Astronomy Working Group. A git
repository will be created on alioth.
[1] http://fitsh.net/
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