Re: [Gimp-user] Opening uncompressed NASA image files in GIMP

[Rick Kline <rick kline ms>]

Thanks, Partha,

That looks like just what I’m looking for, at least as far as file types. Will the 2.8 version of pds work 
with 2.10?

Rick
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> On Dec 2, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com> wrote:
>
> This may or may not be useful to you ...
>
> http://areo.info/gimp/ <http://areo.info/gimp/>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 10:43 PM Rick Kline <rick kline ms <mailto:rick kline ms>> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m using GIMP 2.10.8 on an iMac. 
>
> As a retired Data Manager of a NASA planetary image collection, I’m comfortable with image manipulation. 
> I’ve even written and given lessons in how to make color and 3-D images from greyscale images.
>
> The main archive of NASA images is the PDS Imaging Node. The files are in PDS uncompressed format (.IMG 
> files), so no decompressor is required.
>
> P’shop used to have an “Open Raw” option that allowed Rows, Samples, and Offset (header size), then just 
> popped them open with no fuss. 
>
> Is there a comparable method of opening .IMG images in GIMP?
>
> Sample directory:
> https://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/archive/mer1po/mer1po_0xxx/data/sol0333/edr/ 
> <https://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/archive/mer1po/mer1po_0xxx/data/sol0333/edr/>
>
> Sample image from the directory above:
> 1p157746813eff40b8p2363l3m1.img
>
> Many thanks.
> Rick
>
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