Software to open raw and calibrated PDS images (.img / .dat)?

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  • pdsview

    Python PDS Image Viewer

    https://pypi.org/project/planetaryimage (last update 2016) and related https://github.com/planetarypy/pdsview Reads in PDS3 Images as NumPy arrays. Reads in Isis Cube Files as NumPy arrays.

  • pds4-jparser

    Java Library providing APIs for parsing and exporting information on PDS4 products, including table and image objects to various formats including CSV, PNG, VICAR, FITs, etc.

    But because I personally like the JVM's garbage collector more, than the PVM's GC, I'll also check what's preventing the 16 bit image output for the Java-based transform tool as at least the underlying https://github.com/NASA-PDS/pds4-jparser reads the EDR image into a 16 bit array as I see. Could be limited to 8 bit by the older JAI file writing API used there.

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  • gdal

    GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.

    From the PDS Geo Team I received the recommendation to use https://gdal.org and that indeed produced true linear 16 bit PNG and TIFF output without stretching the data!

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