destroys the original data. What's is apparently saved is the image data,
that is, it's reduced to BufferedImage. That was a disappointing
exercise.
but AFAIK Fiji doesn't support writing this Scientific data mode, alas.
> Johannes, thanks for your help with my initial attempt to write a plugin.
>
> Before I proceed I am asking you and others in the group for some advice.
>
> My situation is that we are developing a camera system for in house
> infrared photography, primarily of wild fires. At this point I need to be
> able to provide a way for others to view our image data and thought that
> Fiji would be a good solution.
>
> I've decided that our images will all have a metadata header and the first
> 24 bytes would be identical in function. Our image data is all (C-talk
> here) unsigned shorts with the 12-14 bits of precision depending on the
> camera and are monochrome.
>
> The size varies greatly among the cameras with a probable minimum of 512
> lines by 640 pixels up to 11 megapixels. The image data for most of the
> cameras are very low contrast unless fire is in the image and consist of
> raw DN values.
>
> The common part of the header, the minimum information for the image to be
> displayed, is" Offset-to-image-data, number-of-lines,
> number-of-samples-per-line, pixel-size, and time-of-acquisition (Java date
> time in ms). The first four data are Java ints, and the time is a Java
> long for a total of 24 bytes.
>
> I'd like to tell the few people who need to view the images to just
> download and install Fiji on their LINUX, Macs, and Windows machines, and
> then how to load and use the plugin/macro I supply. The object is for the
> user to use Fiji to browse and display our files (possible extension
> .rawimage) and not need to enter any image metadata as they may not know
> those data. Once the image is in Fiji it can be manipulated, saved-as,
> etc. In essence it should work analogous to importing a raw image without
> needing to input metadata by hand.
>
> TIA for any insight, pointers, etc.
>
> Nate
>
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