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PDS OPUS - Outer Planets Data Search Tool
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OPUS API interface to picmaker / image viewer #355

Open rfrenchseti opened 6 years ago

rfrenchseti commented 6 years ago

The 2016 RMS PDS Proposal [G.4.1] states:

... We note that many of our tools could be repurposed as back ends for web applications and APIs. This would enable our users to interact directly with our archived data products before deciding which ones to download.

[G.4.1] Images are most amenable to this approach. Our own “picmaker” script reads PDS-labeled data files and converts them to standard display formats such as JPEG or TIFF. It also provides an enormous range of processing options, including zooming, grayscale-stretching, color enhancement, and even filtering. It can operate on a single image or a long list. It is quite fast, so it should provide a responsive user experience. We propose to build a web front end and an API for picmaker. We will integrate it into our OPUS gallery view and also into our volume browser interface. With a published API for such a tool, a user would also be able to bulk-process large numbers of images and download the results.

rfrenchseti commented 4 years ago

More efficiently, this could simply be implemented in the OPUS UI directly for interactive work.