Agenda Changes: ImageDM discussion during Education I

François Bonnarel francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr
Tue Jun 4 06:54:04 PDT 2013


No harm Arnold, I think.
The discussion on ImageDM is far from being closed. It's just starting 
actually!
What do you think of the proposed utypes and of the Custom 
AstroCoordinateSystem argument ?
Cheers
François
Le 04/06/2013 15:48, Rots, Arnold a écrit :
> I suppose I was - but I heard or saw no announcement of when and where 
> this was
> going to happen and no one told me. There was a glaring lack of 
> communication.
>
>   - Arnold
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:15 AM, François Bonnarel 
> <francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr 
> <mailto:francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Arnold,Hi everybody,
>     Le 17/05/2013 09:46, Rots, Arnold a écrit :
>
>     I presented these two alternatives for an open discussion. But you
>     were in another room !!!
>
>     Best regards
>     François
>
>
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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:15 AM, François Bonnarel 
> <francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr 
> <mailto:francois.bonnarel at astro.unistra.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Arnold,Hi everybody,
>     Le 17/05/2013 09:46, Rots, Arnold a écrit :
>>     Since that session was not really completed (or, if it did,
>>     I wasn't able to find out where and when), I posted some
>>     comments on the DM sessions Twiki page, in the form of
>>     some slides regarding the implementation of WCS in STC.
>>     You may recall that Francois asserted that there was no
>>     such support.
>     This is not true. I said it could be difficult or heavy in the
>     first DAL session. But I didn't say there was no support. In the
>     small Image DM session I presented slides (there are on the DM
>     Heidelberg session page) where I proposed STC  utypes for the ref
>     pos and the CDmatrix and projection. I identified Cart2DRefFrame
>     as the package to do that. And I also identified PixelCoordSystem
>     as the package able to describe the Reference pixel (CRPIX). I
>     didn't notice your slides at that moment, sorry.  Below I discuss
>     your example in term of ImageDM utypes (path utypes) to be used in
>     DAL services query responses.
>
>>     There is; see: table 4, Appendix A, and the
>>     example in Appendix B.2.
>>     The main issue is that STC data model was designed to provide a
>>     characterization of the data it referred to along its coordinates.
>>     Part of that was the WCS projection.
>>     When the characterization role is rejected and one starts
>>     cherry-picking pieces from the data model, it becomes more
>>     difficult to put the WCS information back in, since the integrity
>>     of the data model has been lost.
>>     To be blunt: the WCS support is there, but the way you choose
>>     to use STC may make it very difficult to take advantage of it.
>     If we think to provide WCS (or Mapping) for an image along the
>     lines of the example in your slides what would be the utypes ?
>     I found those with their equivalent WCS FITS Keywords
>     PixelCoordSystem.PixelCoordFrame.Cart2DrefFrame.projection --->
>     second part of CTYPE
>     PixelCoordSystem.PixelCoordFrame.Cart2DrefFrame.Transform2 ---->
>     "CDELT" keywords
>     PixelCoordSystem.PixelCoordFrame.CoordRefPos.Vector2DCoordinate
>     ----> "CRVAL" Keywords
>     PixelCoordSystem.PixelCoordFrame.CARTESIAN.naxes ----> NAXES
>     PixelCoordSystem.PixelCoordFrame.ReferencePixel.Pixel2D.Name1
>     ----> First part of CTYPE1
>     PixelCoordSystem.PixelCoordFrame.ReferencePixel.Pixel2D.Name2
>     -----> First part of CTYPE2
>     PixelCoordSystem.PixelCoordFrame.ReferencePixel.Pixel2D.Value2 
>     ------> CRPIX Keywords
>
>     Of course this works. The STC/WCS solution I had in mind was a
>     little different because WCS is actually at least a two step
>     transformation
>         Sphere ------> projected plane (Wolrld coordinates to
>     "standard" coordinates)
>         projected plane ----> pixel plane
>     I thought the first transformation is best rendered SEMANTICALLY
>     by a real AstroCoordSystem with a Custom Cart2DSpaceRefFrame and a
>     Custom RefPos. These features do not really belong to Pixel space
>     in my sense.
>     Then the second transformation (using the matrix/CDELT Transform2
>     and Pixel reference position) could be rendered by the
>     PixelCoordinateSystem
>
>     Alternatively I also proposed the Mapping stuff as it is done in
>     the ImageDM draft. Something much closer the organisation of WCS
>     keywords like
>
>     Mapping.CoordRefPixel
>     Mapping.CDmatrix
>     Mapping.Projection
>     etc...
>
>
>     I presented these two alternatives for an open discussion. But you
>     were in another room !!!
>
>     Best regards
>     François
>
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>       - Arnold
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Jesus Salgado
>>     <jsalgado at sciops.esa.int <mailto:jsalgado at sciops.esa.int>> wrote:
>>
>>         Dear all,
>>
>>         Massimo Ramella has kindly provided part of the time of his
>>         Education 1 session on
>>         Thursday 11:00–12:30 to finish the discussion on ImageDM
>>         draft that we were having
>>         during DM1 session.
>>
>>         That means, we will have F. Bonnarel presentation that could
>>         not give today plus
>>         the brainstorming.
>>
>>         Please take note of that :)
>>         Cheers,
>>         Jesus
>>
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>>     Arnold H. Rots                                          Chandra
>>     X-ray Science Center
>>     Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory                   tel:  +1
>>     617 496 7701
>>     60 Garden Street, MS 67                                     
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>>     Cambridge, MA 02138 arots at cfa.harvard.edu
>>     <mailto:arots at cfa.harvard.edu>
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> Arnold H. Rots                                          Chandra X-ray 
> Science Center
> Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory                   tel:  +1 617 
> 496 7701
> 60 Garden Street, MS 67                                      fax:  +1 
> 617 495 7356
> Cambridge, MA 02138 arots at cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:arots at cfa.harvard.edu>
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> <http://hea-www.harvard.edu/%7Earots/>
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