Re: FITS data cube: Save as?

Posted by ctrueden on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/FITS-data-cube-Save-as-tp5005052p5005293.html

Hi David,

> Is there any way ( plugin etc) to save the data cube back as an edited
> data cube?

Not that I know of. We would love to have this feature in the SCIFIO [1]
library though (which is what ImageJ2 uses for its core image I/O). Right
now we only support reading FITS data cubes. So I expect that ImageJ2 will
eventually support saving FITS data cubes. If you have any programmers in
your group interested in doing this work, we would be happy to give some
pointers on how to get started.

In the meantime, ImageJ does support saving multiple image planes to many
other file formats including multi-page TIFF. Perhaps the other software
you are using (that expects to receive a FITS data cube) supports reading
one of these other formats?

Regards,
Curtis

[1] http://scif.io/


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 5:06 AM, David Nicholls <[hidden email]>wrote:

> I'm exploring ImageJ as a way of editing the images contained in a FITS
> data cube.  It's very handy for editing out cosmic ray noise manually.
>  However, while imageJ knows how to open FITS data cubes, it looks like it
> can't save them - 'Save as FITS' merely saves the currently viewed frame as
> a single image FITS file.
>
> Is there any way ( plugin etc) to save the data cube back as an edited
> data cube?
>
> DN
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