Available Software

"I have the data, but what do I use with it?"

There are some widely distributed software packages developed by NASA, the USGS, ASU, and others that work with much of the MGS and Odyssey data.

Be sure to check and set variables, paths, and aliases for these programs.

See /home/marsdata/common/scripts/basics/dot_alias.csh and /home/marsdata/common/scripts/basics/dot_cshrc.csh


Title

Description

Official Site

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ArcGis

ArcMap

ArcInfo

Powerful GIS software from ESRI for Windows users. GPS uses this program to a great extent. See Rich Chomko or JoAnne Giberson for more information.
 

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/index.html

Yes.

For use contact the GIS Lab.

Phone: 626.395.6107
Email: gislab@its.caltech.edu

DMAP
Data mapping tool, which maps Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES ) data onto a projected Mars surface.
 

http://software.la.asu.edu/dmap/

Yes.

dmap
GridView
IDL Program to View MOLA grids
 

http://denali.gsfc.nasa.gov/mola_pub/gridview/gridview.html

Yes

/home/marsdata/common/idl/MOLA/gridview

 

ISIS
USGS developed software for working with many different NASA and ESA mission's data.
 

http://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/

Yes

1) setisis

2) isis

3) <command> or <t command> for Tutor Mode

Some ISIS program calls can work without running the ISIS environment, TAE. Just 'setisis'.

JMARS
Web, Java-based GIS Tool with built in MOC, THEMIS footprints, MOLA tracks

http://jmars.asu.edu/

Yes

jmars

(Need login. Go to website)

matlab
Widerange of uses. Can be used to import images, MOLA data, etc.

http://www.mathworks.com/

Yes

matlab

molafind
Java program written to

Plot MOLA coverage, obtain pass numbers, or obtain pass number, lat, lon, height table for a lat/lon box.

Outputs to postscript plot or ASCII table.

Anton Ivanov (anton.ivanov@jpl.nasa.gov)

Yes

/home/marsdata/common/scripts/MOLA/molafind/

(Java must be installed.)

SPICE Tools

Icy

NAIF/SPICE Kernels

JPL's NAIF manages the standard SPICE kernels that support all NASA missions. ESA also follows NAIF standards.

The NAIF toolkit has many tools used to determine spacecraft geometry, timings, image informations, etc.

Icy is a library of IDL programs that use the cspice tools

http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/

Yes

/home/marsdata/common/naif/

Documentation

Vanilla

Command-line program used to search through TES data and output it to ASCII and binary tables.

http://vanilla.asu.edu/

Yes

vanilla