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- From: cahalan@clouds.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Cahalan)
- Subject: Re: NASA image viewer
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:10:04 GMT
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- In article <999@esosun.UUCP> zeke@esosun.UUCP (James Dehnert) writes:
- >
- > On pioneer.unm.edu there are a number of NASA images from the voyager
- > space crafts. These images are in a compressed raw format that dosen't
- > seem to be readable by any of the software on my system. Does anyone
- > know of a program that can uncompress and display these images?
- > There is source code on the system to do this, but the C code seems to
- > be writen for PC's, and I am not what one would call a "really good"
- > programer. I'll take a crack at porting the code if nothing exists, but
- > I don't know if I'll ever have the time, and my skill level may not be
- > up to par.
- >
- > So, is there some existing software to view these images?
- >
- > Zeke
-
- I'm not into Voyager data, but if they're like the shuttle photos, then
- they are in band-sequential format with a 512 byte header, with
- 512 x 512 bytes of red, 512 x 512 bytes of green, and 512 x 512 bytes
- of blue. Use HexEditor (from Sonata) to examine the first 512 bytes.
- That should tell you the number of pixels-per-line (512) and the number of
- lines-per-band (512) and the number of bands (3). If it makes sense, then
- you can use the unix utility "dd" to strip out the individual bands into
- three files (do a "man dd"), and then use my NeXT utility "RGBtoTIFF" (at
- cs.orst.edu) to put them into a compressed TIFF file. Then use Icon, or
- your favorite TIFF reader.
-
- You might try running this little script on your file (see the Help screen
- of RGBtoTIFF):
- dd if=$1.dat of=$1.r skip=1 count=$2 bs=$2
- dd if=$1.dat of=$1.g skip=$2+1 count=$2 bs=$2
- dd if=$1.dat of=$1.b skip=2*$2+1 count=$2 bs=$2
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