RE: Time for Software

["Gutzwiller, Michael" <mgutzwiller@lanvision.com>]

I'll take a whack at the pipeline stages:

Stage                        Input                 Output

Camera Calibration           Photons               Dark Field, Flat Field
Image Acquisition            Photons               FITS Image
Star List Generation         FITS Image,           Star List (x,y)
                             Dark Field,
                             Flat Field 
Registration to Catalog      Star List (x,y)       Star List (ra,dec)
Color Calibration            Star List (x,y)       Star List (ra,dec)
Insert to database           Star List (ra, dec)   Observations database

There may be other steps for calibration or post processing like FlatComp
for Mark III images.  Some steps may be combined as Star does with star list
generation and registration to catalog.  Some steps may be reversed such as
doing color calibration on the observations database as was done with the
tenx catalog.

I believe the relevant places to standardize are the same as for the Mark
III - FITS image, Star List (ra,dec), and database format.


Mike G.

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Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 12:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Time for Software


I understand that each of you will want to do it all yourself.  Actually 
there are probably two classes, those who will tend to do everything 
themselves, and those who want to get everything done by someone else.  The 
latter class has at least one member (me.)

I think what is really important is that we all agree on formats/standards 
so that we can share programs.  It would be nice to be able to process the 
same data through several pipelines and compare outputs at various stages 
in the process.  This implies that there are stages.

Unless we define stages, all we will know is that pipeline A has some 
systematic difference from pipeline B when we compare the outputs.  Some 
stages might be star finding, flat field correction, color correction, etc..

OK, I am far from an expert here.  I am just trying to stimulate some 
discussion as to what the pipeline should look like.  Some of you have some 
real experience on a lot of different systems.  Some of you have little 
experience with anything but Mark III and Mark IV data.  The later group 
might be major contributors to the software effort.  But to do so, they 
need somehow to get input from the experienced as to how to partition the 
effort.  This partition will also allow several people to create one
pipeline.

Tom Droege