IMAGE Data Systems and Formats Workshop
IDFS Tutorial Outline

Overview of how to set up an IDFS system on your computer.
- What directories are necessary
- What environment variables need to be set
- What files may need to be modified and why
- What documents are out there and where to get them
- Differences between the SwRI generic IDFS source and what will be distributed under IMAGE
- The OS independent IDFS generic code project
- IDFS to CDF and IDFS to IDL routines
Creating an VIDF file
- What do all the fields mean
- Which ones are the most likely to need updating
- How do I read a VIDF table
- How would I create a VIDF from scratch
Creating IDFS translation algorithms using the VIDF table data.
Creating an PIDF file
- What do all the fields mean
- Which ones are the most likely to need updating
- How can I customize my own PIDF
- How would I create a PIDF from scratch
Programming with the IDFS generic software
- The basic routines needed, what they do and how to call them
- Access of the VIDF data
- Access of the PIDF data
- The design of a simple program to access IDFS data
A generic plotting package for IMAGE data
- What exists now
- How does it work
- What changes need to be added
- Running in "batch mode"

Curator:

Dr. E. V. Bell, II, ed.bell@gsfc.nasa.gov , +1-301-286-1187
NSSDC, Mail Code 633, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771