By Holger Isenberg

Site : http://registry.gimp.org/node/1627


This plugin loads NASA/ESA PDS/EDR images.

PDS/EDR format is the image format used by NASA Planetary Data System
and by ESA Planetary Science Archives. PDS images from various space
missions are available at http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/ and
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=PSA


MAHLI / MastCam from Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" (MSL) partly supported: 8 bit RDR can be loaded (file names with DRCX and DRCL). Two files needed for each image: LBL and IMB. EDR and 16 bit will follow.

With the PDS plug-in you can load images from these missions and others:

    Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" (MSL)
    Mars Exploration Rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity" (MER)
    Mars Express HRSC
    2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS EDR/RDR-QUB (RGB-loader)
    Mars Global Surveyor MOC
    Mars Pathfinder
    Viking Lander

PDS-files usually have the filename-suffix ".img" or ".imq" if compressed.
Note, that this suffix is also used for other non-PDS file-formats.

As GIMP will support 16 bit per channel only from GIMP 3.0 on 16 bit data is currently converted to 8 bit with this plugin.

The plug-in will install itself as input filter for files with the following suffixes:
img,imq,qub,pds,edr,bb1,bb2,bb3,bb4,ir1,ir2,ir3,n07,n15,sur,sun,red,grn,blu,sgr,vio 