Agenda Changes: ImageDM discussion during Education I

Rots, Arnold arots at cfa.harvard.edu
Wed Jun 5 11:57:48 PDT 2013


Jesus,

I heard no such announcement and I had to be at the DCP session.
I have yet to see an Interop meeting schedule where the parallel session
work out well...

  - Arnold


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Jesus Salgado
<Jesus.Salgado at sciops.esa.int>wrote:

> Hi Arnold,
> I am a little bit puzzled.
> We announced it in the plenary room and there was nobody at room 106
> during the discussion.
>
> We finally decided to include the ImageDM discussion at the end of the
>
> DAL III - discussion of time series focus session
>
> as many of the people involved were the same one.
> (I thought you were there (?))
>
> We will send an email next time.
> Cheers,
> Jesus
>
>
> On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 09:48 -0400, Rots, Arnold wrote:
> > 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> 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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> > Arnold H. Rots                                          Chandra X-ray
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:15 AM, François Bonnarel
> > <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> 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
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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
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> > arots at cfa.harvard.edu
> > USA
> > http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/
> >
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> >
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> Jesus J. SALGADO                       Jesus.Salgado at sciops.esa.int
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7701
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