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

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

Since I've never played with pds files before, I can't tell you yet. I'll
test it on my McGimp build and let you know.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 11:05 PM Rick Kline <rick kline ms> wrote:

> 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/
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> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 10:43 PM Rick Kline <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/
> >
> > Sample image from the directory above:
> > 1p157746813eff40b8p2363l3m1.img
> >
> > Many thanks.
> > Rick
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