+ Now that you have some experience running applications and working with data, you may have some questions
+ about how exactly ISIS works.
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+ On this page you will find a wide variety of resources explaining the specific details of how ISIS works. Many
+ components of ISIS were created in response to the needs of specific data sets. So, there are a wide variety of
+ processing paths and customizations that you can leverage when creating a workflow.
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+ These resources are useful regardless of what you are using ISIS for. They provide details about fundamental components of ISIS that
+ are used across applications.
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+ These resources apply to specific applications or specialized processing methods. They provide particulars about how to work with individual
+ applications or how specialized data is formatted.
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+ Let's zoom out and look at what community members have used ISIS to do in the past. These papers, talks and
+ demonstrations are examples that you can draw inspiration from and model your own workflows after.
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+ A presentation given by Kris Becker concerning the motivation and work done to create the findfeatures application. Coresponding abstract
+ can be found here
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+ A talk given by Jesse Mapel at the OpenPlanetary Lunch
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Papers
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+ These documents will take you through a small tutorial to get you running your first few applications and explain some of the basics of ISIS.
+ They will also give you a brief introduction to the planetary data ecosystem and how you can find data to process in ISIS.
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+ ISIS is typically run through the command-line interface (CLI) or a graphical user interface (GUIs). All application have GUIs, but not all
+ application can be entirely run from the command line. The interactive ISIS applications are GUI only and are used to visualize and edit
+ specialized data, these applications all start with “q” (”qview”, “qmos”, etc.).
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+ At this point you should have ISIS installed and have run your first commands, meaning you are officially an ISIS user, congratulations!
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+ On this page you will find information and resources to help you further your skills as an ISIS user as well as learn some of the history
+ of ISIS and its predecessors. The tutorials and explanations here will help you personalize the operation of your ISIS install and the walk
+ you through the basic steps of processing data through ISIS to create analysis ready data or control networks from various mission data.
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+ ISIS has been in development since the early 1970’s, just after the Astrogeology Science Center (ASC) involvement with the Apollo mission. Learn
+ more about the origin of this foundational software!
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+ This document provides detailed documentation for every application in ISIS. If you are looking for an application to perform a specific task,
+ this is a great place to start.
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Intermediate Tutorials
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+ These tutorials walk you through intermediate image processing methods that are useful across a variety of workflows as well
+ as high-level explanations of some cartographic concepts.
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+ Learning About Map Projection
+ Description of the types of Projections supported by ISIS.
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+ Camera Geometry
+ Description of camera geometry within ISIS and example of ISIS applications that have access to this geometry.
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Interactive Tools
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+ Qnet
+ An interactive tool to create and edit control networks.
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+ Qtie
+ An interactive tool to update the camer pointing (SPICE) of a single cube.
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+ Qview
+ An interactive tool to display and analyze cubes.
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+ Qmos
+ An interactive tool to display and analyze cube footprints.
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Mission Specific ISIS Processing
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+ These tutorials walk you through the steps required to map project a variety of the datasets supported by ISIS.
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+ Welcome! We are very glad you are joining the community!
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+ On this page you will find resources to help you start using the ISIS software; how to install, running your
+ first command, and a short tutorial to get you familiar with ISIS. This page will also direct you to some
+ resources where you can seek help from fellow community members.
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+ ISIS is a free and open-source software (FOSS) that has been in use by the planetary science and data community for decades. These documents
+ describe how to install the latest version of ISIS and some legacy versions too.
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+ instructions on downloading and installing versions of ISIS3 3.5.2 and earlier.
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Introductory Tutorials
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+ These documents will take you through a small tutorial to get you running your first few applications and explain some of the basics of ISIS.
+ They will also give you a brief introduction to the planetary data ecosystem and how you can find data to process in ISIS.
+
+ ISIS is typically run through the command-line interface (CLI) or a graphical user interface (GUIs). All application have GUIs, but not all
+ application can be entirely run from the command line. The interactive ISIS applications are GUI only and are used to visualize and edit
+ specialized data, these applications all start with “q” (”qview”, “qmos”, etc.).
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+ A community board where we collect our online knowledge base, provide release announcements, and provide user support. If you need help,
+ want to get the latest news, or just want to learn more and interact with other ISIS3 users come say hello!
+
- This is the home page for ISIS, a digital image processing software
- package. The focus of the software is to manipulate imagery collected
- by current and past NASA and International planetary missions sent
- throughout our Solar System.
+ The Integrated System for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS) is a free,
+ specialized, digital image processing software package developed by
+ the USGS for NASA. ISIS key feature is the ability to place many
+ types of data in the correct cartographic location, enabling disparate
+ data to be co-analyzed. ISIS also includes standard image processing
+ applications such as contrast, stretch, image algebra, filters, and
+ statistical analysis. ISIS can process two-dimensional images as well
+ as three-dimensional cubes derived from imaging spectrometers. The
+ production of USGS topographic maps of extraterrestrial landing sites
+ relies on ISIS software. ISIS is able to process data from NASA and
+ International spacecraft missions including Lunar Orbiter, Apollo,
+ Voyager, Mariner 10, Viking, Galileo, Magellan, Clementine, Mars
+ Global Surveyor, Cassini, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
+ MESSENGER, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Chandrayaan, Dawn, Kaguya, and
+ New Horizons.
- Major changes to how ISIS works are now handled through Requests for Comment (RFCs).
- These are a venue for the user community to voice their opinions on how they would
- like the software to work.
- Currently open RFCs can be found on the
- ISIS Github.
+ The ISIS software is a valuable resource for planetary missions that
+ require systematic data processing, products for planning, and research
+ and analysis of derived data products. By using ISIS, missions can
+ leverage millions of dollars of software development that NASA has paid
+ for. However, before the power of ISIS can be applied to an instrument,
+ a camera model and custom programs to ingest mission-specific ancillary
+ data are necessary. Once an instrument is added to ISIS, it can support
+ data processing pipelines, radiometric calibration, photometric
+ calibration, band-to-band registration of multispectral data,
+ ortho-rectification, construction of scientifically accurate and
+ cosmetically pleasing mosaics, generation of control networks solutions
+ and creation of topographic models.