| Seeking testers for proposed IDL wavelets astronomy library [message #52326] |
Fri, 26 January 2007 05:42 |
Amara Graps
Messages: 24
Registered: June 1996
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Dear comp.lang.idl-pvwave folks,
Next week I'm submitting a NASA proposal to write, test, and suppport a
large IDL wavelet library to help astronomers in their data analysis.
I am seeking IDL-using scientists, especially astronomers, who might be
interested to test the routines and to add to the examples that I want to
provide at the end, which demonstrates the library's capabilities. There
is no guarantee that this proposal will be funded, but, if I have a list
of testers interested to be involved in the software, then I can say
such words in the proposal, which will make my case stronger to the
proposal reviewers.
This IDL library will have a heritage from Wavelab and Beamlab, the
Stanford Statistics Department Matlab wavelet libraries. In addition to
the basic wavelet functions that are standard in the DSP community, I
want to provide some novel extensions that are especially useful for
astronomers. These include transforms for unevenly-spaced data sets,
denoising using thresholds that are statistically suitable for
astronomical data, multidimensional nonisotropic wavelets on curves and
spheres which can detect oriented features in images and cubes, and ways
to set up the wavelet analysis in a data reduction pipeline.
If you like this idea, and are interested in it, please write me at
[amara -at- psi.edu] or [amara -at- amara.com]
If you don't know what are wavelets, and are curious, you are welcome to
visit my Wavelets web pages, beginning here:
http://www.amara.com/current/wavelet.html
Thank you!
Amara
Amara Graps, PhD www.amara.com
INAF Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Roma, ITALIA
Associate Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute (PSI), Tucson
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