Software, Tools, Tutorials & Viewers

Multi-Mission

PDS Webification Tool Webification (w10n) is an enabling technology that simplifies use of data on the web platform. It has been successfully applied to large and complex science data, such as ones archived by NASA Planetary Data System (PDS). PDS Tool Registry This interface allows the user to search for and discover tools relating to the access and use of planetary data. The interface also allows tool providers to submit their software for inclusion in the registry. PDS Marsviewer The PDS Marsviewer desktop client is an image viewing tool tailored to Mars in situ missions. The tool makes it easy to view original images (EDRs) as well as all derived image products (RDRs), such as XYZ maps, slope, reachability, mosaics, etc., for MER, MSL, and Phoenix mission data. PDS Image Atlas III A search method with faceted navigation features which allows a user to asses and organized information according to a set of attributes, explore a collection of information by applying multiple filters using a system of classification that assigns an object to multiple taxonomies (set of attributes, i.e., PDS keywrds), enabling the classification to be ordered multiple ways, rather than in a single, predetermined, taxonomic order. GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful command-line utilities for data translation and processing. It has support to read most derived (map projected) PDS3, PDS4 (raster, GIS vector, and tables), ISIS2, ISIS3, and VICAR formats. It also supports FITS reading and writing using the CFITSIO library, including an extension to FITS for geospatial definitions informally called GeoFITS. For more on PDS3 support see: https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/pds.html More on PDS4 see: https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/pds4.html IMG2PNG This Windows software utility converts different PDS files, e.g., MER, Pathfinder, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Stardust, various Mars orbiters, Mariner 9/10, Viking Orbiter, Viking Lander, Magellan, Clementine, Messenger, Phoenix, Venus Express, LRO, New Horizons, etc. Written by Björn Jonsson. Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (Isis) The ISIS3 wiki is a collection of tutorials designed to lead students from learning the basics to developing advanced skills in image processing with Isis. Many of the tutorials have interactive exercises where you can visualize what is being described, and some have links to data you can download and practice using in Isis 3. The focus of the software is to manipulate imagery collected by current and past NASA planetary missions sent to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and other solar system bodies. The ISIS3 wiki includes collections for working with data from MRO HiRISE, MRO CTX, MGS MOC, and Viking Orbiter. JMARS (Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing) A Java-based geospatial information system developed by the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. It is currently used for mission planning and scientific data analysis by several NASA missions, including Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASAView NASAView is a PDS archive product display program that runs on multiple platforms in a GUI environment. These products include images (including multi_spectrum images), tables (including those with bit columns and containers), cubes, and text documents. Images may be stretched, inverted, and displayed in a number of palettes: Greyscale, Red-Orange, Blue-Gray, Prism, Topo, Ramp, and Contour. Histograms are available for images and some cubes. Backplane data may be displayed for some cubes. Download available for PC, Linux and Solaris. The Planetary Society Space Topics: Space Imaging; Space Image Processing Tutorials. A variety of information and tutorials to guide users on how to process images of planets and space. The author/source is Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society. See Emily's Planetary Society Blog for a quick lesson on how to use the Planetary Image Atlas Getting to the real science image data: It's not that hard!. SPICE An information system built by The Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) to assist NASA scientists in planning and interpreting scientific observations. Follow these links to archived SPICE data and to the SPICE Toolkit that contains a library of subroutines used to read SPICE data files ("kernels") and to compute observation geometry such as range, instrument boresight intercept location, and lighting angles using those data. VICAR VICAR, which stands for Video Image Communication And Retrieval, is a general purpose image processing software system that has been developed since 1966 to digitally process multi-dimensional imaging data. VICAR was developed primarily to process images from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's unmanned planetary spacecraft. It is now used for a variety of other applications including biomedical image processing, cartography, earth resources, astronomy, and geological exploration. It is not only used by JPL but by several universities, NASA sites and other science/research institutions in the United States and Europe.

Cassini
Cassini ISS Data Users' Guide (PDF) Cassini RADAR Users' Guide (PDF) How to Obtain Cassini Data (Tutorial) Cassini Isis Workshop

Chandrayaan-1
M3 ENVI User's Guide Working with M3 Data Working with M3 L1B Data M3 Data Tutorial M3ACT-REACT QuickMap M3ACT-REACT QuickMap Tutorial (PDF)

Clementine

CLEMDCMP/CLIMDISP (Clementine Image Decompression Software) CLEMDCMP, an image decompression program, requires a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and may take several minutes to decompress an image on hardware platforms with slow processors. For example, in tests on a Macintosh IIci, the decompression takes approximately 4 minutes. CLEMDCMP has been tested on hardware platforms with modern processors, such as an Intel 486DX2/66-Mhz, and the decompression takes just several seconds. CLIMDISP is an image display and processing program. It can be used to display Clementine uncompressed images and histograms but currently can not create GIF formatted files.

Juno
HST MAST WFCJ The Wide Field Coverage for Juno (WFCJ) program is synchronized with perijove passes of the NASA Juno mission.

KAGUYA (SELENE)
Kaguya Terrain Camera Data Search (PDF) Kaguya Terrain Camera Data Search (PowerPoint)

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Processing of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Narrow Angle Camera Image Frames with ISIS 3 (Tutorial) Featuring How to Create NAC CDRs (February 14, 2014) Diviner Symposium/Data Users Forum Presentations

Magellan

User Guide to the Magellan Synthetic Aperture Radar Images This user guide outlines the mission operations and data set so that a user working with the data can understand the mapping and data-processing techniques used in the mission. (NASA Reference Publication 1356, March 1995) Magellan SAR Processing Software (USP V1.1) Compressed Zip File Written by VEXCEL Corporation for Sun Solaris, last updated in November, 1995. No information is available regarding its installation or use.

Mariner
Albatross Mariner Mars 1971 UVS Reflectance & TV Data Viewer Mercury Mariner 10 Project Mark S. Robinson

Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
MER Analyst's Notebook User's Guide Provides access to the MER Mission data archives by integrating sequence information, engineering and science data, and documentation into standard web-accessible pages to facilitate mission "replay."

Mars Global Surveyor
Marsoweb An interactive map that allows users to display TES, MOLA, MOC, geology and mineralogy on a Viking basemap. Users can create customized cross sections and elevation profiles. Java-based MOC image processing. Working with MOC Data (Tutorial)

2001 Mars Odyssey

Davinci Arizona State University (ASU) software for processing THEMIS data. Davinci is an interpreted language that looks and feels a lot like C, but has additional vector oriented features that make working with blocks of data a lot easier. This makes daVinci well suited for use as a data processing tool, allowing symbolic and mathematical manipulation of hyperspectral data for imaging spectroscopy applications. THEMIS Web-based Processing Interface (THMPROC) THMPROC is a web-based processing system provided by the THEMIS Data Node at Arizona State University (ASU) that allows users to log on and submit processing requests for creating THEMIS data products. The processing occurs remotely at ASU and users must first register for a free username and password. Map-projected output images include emissivity, temperature, and radiance data and a variety of stretches may be used. Register at http://thmproc.mars.asu.edu/ THEMIS Geometric Processing User's Guide The purpose of this document is to provide scientists using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Visible and Infrared special geometry products with enough information to enable them to read and understand the data products. (January 1, 2010)

Mars Pathfinder (MPS)
Users Guide: The Imager for Mars Pathfinder Provides a detailed description of the Mars Pathfinder IMP imaging system, including the physical properties of the camera, the camera parameters, and the commands used to control the camera. (Version 1.3 February 3, 1997)

Mars Reconnaissance Rover (MRO)
Working with HiRISE Data (Tutorial) Working with CTX Data (Tutorial) HiView Data Explorer and Image Viewing Application

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Importing the PDS NAVCAM Data into ArcGIS/ArcMAP Contribution by Fred Calef (Dec. 2015)

MESSENGER

ACT-REACT QuickMap Allows users to explore images and data from MESSENGER's orbital mission. Once data are publically available at the PDS, the images are also available to be explored here in QuickMap. QuickMap Help Documentation MESSENGER MDIS Data Users Workshop, 44th LPSC, March 17, 2013 Overview of the MESSENGER Mission, MDIS Instrument, and Imaging Campaigns (PDF) MDIS Calibration Workshop (PDF) Finding MESSENGER MDIS Data in the PDS, March 15, 2015 (PDF) Fast & Easy Interface to MESSENGER Mission Data (PDF) ACT-REACT QuickMap overview. ISIS Guide to Working with MESSENGER MDIS Data (PDF) Provides an introduction to the U.S. Geological Survey's ISIS3 software and demonstrates its use in processing of MESSENGER MDIS data. ISIS Demos and Materials for MDIS Data Users ISIS Support Board

Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)
Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) User's Guide Instruction for Basic Viewing of an M3 L0/L1B/L2 Image Cube File (*.IMG) using ENVI 4.3

Phoenix
Phoenix Analyst's Notebook The Phoenix Analyst's Notebook provides access to the Phoenix Mission data archives by integrating sequence information, science data, and documentation into standard web-accessible pages to facilitate mission "replay."

Viking Lander
VikingExtractor VikingExtractor is a libre tool to recover Viking Lander era mission operations images and convert them into PNG images. The tool was authored by Cartesian Theatre's Avaneya project.

Voyager
Voyager CD-ROM Software This software (also provided on the Voyager CD-ROMs) is necessary to decompress the Voyager images. The programs provided can convert the images to FITS, VICAR2, PDS, and raw formats.