20040224: Image comparison program?

> Hi all-- just wondering if there is a McIDAS program that will do 
> image-to-image comparisons?
> I am not talking about remapping image A into image B's projection, or 
> in some other way forcing
> the images to be coincident;  rather, I've simply got 2 images of any 
> projection and coverage,
> and I want to compare them objectively.  We here at CIMSS would find 
> such a program very
> useful.
> 
>  From what I can see,  IMGOPER and IMGPROBE, and the XRD routine ASTAT 
> come the
> closest to what I'm looking for.  Also, the program needs to be 
> ADDE-based-- I don't want
> to have to IMGCOPY one image to my computer before doing the 
> comparison.   Perhaps
> somebody out there has already done the job, or has some software that 
> "almost" does the
> job.   If the program doesn't already exist, I plan on putting one 
> together and making it available
> for XRD. 
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jim



From: Bill Hibbard <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:48:56 -0600 (CST)
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Image comparison program?

Hi Jim,

I can't resist saying that image comparison from ADDE fits
very well into VisAD, and could probably be done in Unidata's
IDV via a Python script. Perhaps this task could be a use
case for the McIDAS V effort.

For a task like this, VisAD/IDV combines McIDAS's smarts about
navigation and units with the easy scripting of Matlab/IDL.

Cheers,
Bill