PLIA: The Planetary Laboratory for Image Analysis


IDL based software for Planetary image processing and navigation developed at the Grupo de Ciencias Planetarias (GCP) in the University of the Basque country UPV/EHU.




This is the homepage of the PLIA software. You can access here information about the software. There is a preliminary open source version available for download. Currently the open source version of PLIA is a general purpose visualization and processing tool for astronomical images. Unfortunately we can not provide support to external users in issues such as image navigation. The open source version does not include therefore functions for image navigation. PLIA remains largely an ongoing project with frequent changes. We will release a version with navigation capabilities of ground-based observations in the near future.

Software releases

PLIA 2.6 (rar.gz 2.8Mb) (released April 10th, 2010)

Documentation

We are submitting a paper to Advances in Space Research documenting the software. A free-format version of this paper will be here available when the paper gets accepted.

Introducing PLIA: The Planetary Laboratory for Image Analysis. J. Peralta, R. Hueso, N. Barrado and A. Sánchez-Lavega.
Poster presented at the 37th DPS Meeting, 4-9 September 2005, Cambridge.

Main software, early versions and project coordination:

Dr. Ricardo Hueso.

Additional work:
Javier Peralta, Jon Legarreta and Dr. Jose Félix Rojas (GCP, UPV/EHU).

Acknowledgements: Motivation for the development of this software came from the need to provide a general easy to use tool to navigate and process cube images obtained by the VIRTIS-M instrument onboard the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Venus Express. Thanks are due to P.Is: Giovanni Piccioni and Pierre Drossart for their help and advice in developing this software. Thanks are also due to S. Erard for his help in reading and writing PDS data files and to Naiara Barrado for first real software tests. We wish to acknowledge the use of different programs and routines written by Dr. David Fanning on his excellent "Guide to IDL Programming" and IDL routines from the IDL Astronomy's User's Library.


Last updated: 07 April 2010 Back to the GCP webpage