SpaceIndustrys:
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Mars Exploration Program
Windows & Linux image processing tools. Supports the conversion of gray images with the Bayer matrix.
Tools for viewing and processing Mariner, Venera, Viking Orbiter, and Cassini Orbiter image data; finished images can be saved in BMP or FITS format; by Piotr Masek
Popular image editor
Java-based image processing package. (Please note that there are concerns about the security of Java.)
Plugins for Astronomical Image Processing with ImageJ; offers a "Debayer" plugin which creates a colour image from an input Bayer matrix
A package with two applications for image viewing and processing, mainly for FITS images; by Carsten A. Arnholm
Command-line program for converting entire folders of PDS formatted files to PNG; removes reseau marks from Voyager, Viking, Mariner 9 and Mariner 10 images; by Björn Jónsson
Popular graphic viewer; by installing the plugins package, IrfanView supports the JPEG 2000 format
A free Photoshop and After Effects plug-in for reading and writing the JPEG 2000 file format
Small GUI-based standalone program for deinterlacing JPEG files; provides excellent results; no installation required, just unpack the ZIP file
GIMP Plugin
Plugin for ImageJ; opens and displays PDS image files
Open source graphical tool to resize, especially magnify images in high quality
Standalone and open source image processing software for FITS files
Image stitching software
- Automatic Panorama Recognising Tool for Panotools
- Panorama stitching software
- Capable of stitching panoramas completely automatically, whether horizontal or horizontal and vertical.
- A basic guide for using PanoTools together with PTGui. In German language.
- A useful cross-platform GUI for Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools
- Image stitching software; assembles multiple photos to build genuine mosaics or vast panoramas; also creates complete 360º panoramas in Apple's QuickTime® VR format
- From this page you can download the files from Dersch's Panorama Tools used by PTAssembler
- This program uses Helmut Dersch's Panorama tools
- A helper program for Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools
- A panoramic stitching software for Windows and Mac OSX
- A personal homepage with a lot of Terragen galleries
- The Home of Terragen - a photorealistic 3D landscape rendering software
- Terragen galleries, terrain files, forums, links, and many more...
- Terragen picture galleries by "Lissy"
- Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
- Rendering the Earth and other planets by using POV-Ray; website by Christoph Hormann
- This plugin for Blender imports a HiRISE DTM that is formatted as a PDS IMG file, reads the embedded PDS label and decodes the raster elevations to create a mesh.
- This plugin imports a DTM of the Moon (LRO Lola) or from Mars (MGS Mola) into Blender, reads the embedded PDS label and decodes the raster elevations to create a mesh.
- A high-quality, free tool for creating 3D graphics
- by Christoph Hormann