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NAME

       fitrans - performing spatial transformations on the input image

SYNOPSIS

       fitrans [transformation and options] <input> [-o|--output <output>]

DESCRIPTION

       The   main   purpose  of  this  program  is  to  perform  specific  or  generic  geometric
       transformations on the input image.

OPTIONS

   General options:
       -h, --help
              Gives general summary about the command line options.

       --long-help, --help-long
              Gives a detailed list of command line options.

       --wiki-help, --help-wiki, --mediawiki-help, --help-mediawiki
              Gives a detailed list of command line options in Mediawiki format.

       --version, --version-short, --short-version
              Gives some version information about the program.

       -i, --input <image file>
              Name of the input FITS image file.

       -o, --output <image file>
              Name of the output FITS image file.

       -b, --bitpix <bitpix>
              Standard FITS output bitpix value.

       -D, --data <spec>
              Output pixel data format specification.

   Spatial transformations:
       -T, --input-transformation <transformation file>
              Name of the file which contains the transformation description.Such a file  can  be
              created  e.g.  by the programs `grtrans` or `grmatch`. This file contains basically
              the  same  set  of  <keyword>  =  <value>  pairs  as   it   is   used   after   the
              -t|--transformation option (see there).

       -t, --transformation <transformation>
              Comma-separated  list  of  parameters  for  the spatial transformation, see section
              "Parameters for spatial transformations" below.

       -e, --shift <dx>,<dy>
              Imply a transformation that shifts the image by <dx>,<dy>.

       --reverse, --inverse
              Apply the inverse transformation to the image rather than the original one.

       -m     Simple linear interpolation between pixels, with no exact flux conservation (just a
              multiplication by the Jacobian of the transformation).

       -l     Linear  interpolation  between  the  pixels  involving  exact  flux conservation by
              integrating on the image surface.

       -c     Bicubic spline interpolation between pixels, with no exact flux conservation  (just
              a multiplication by the Jacobian of the transformation).

       -k     Interpolation  by  integrationg  the  flux  on a biquadratic interpolation surface,
              yielding exact flux conservation.

       -s, --size <sx>,<sy>
              The size of the output image if it should differ from the original image size.

       -f, --offset <x>,<y>
              Zero-point coordinate of the output image in the input image.

   Parameters for spatial transformations:
       type=<type>
              Type of the transformation. In the actual implementation, the only  supported  type
              for a transformation is "polynomial".

       order=<order>
              Polynomial order for the transformation.

       dxfit=<coefficients>
              Comma-separated  list  of  the  polynomial  coefficients  for the X coordinate. The
              number of coefficients must  be  1,  3,  6,  ...  for  the  orders  0,  1,  2,  ...
              respectively.

       dyfit=<coefficients>
              Comma-separated list of the polynomial coefficients for the Y coordinate.

   Other simple spatial geometric transformations:
       -z, --zoom <factor>
              Zoom   the   image   by   the  given  (integer)  factor,  involving  a  biquadratic
              subpixel-level interpolation and therefore exact flux conservation.

       -r, --shrink <factor>
              Shrink the image by the given (integer) factor.

       -d, --median
              Use a median-based averaging during the shrinking operation.

       --optimistic-masking
              Imply some optimism during the  shrinking  operation:  masked  pixels  are  ignored
              during  the  averaging  process and the final mask will be computed in a complement
              manner.

       -g, --magnify <factor>
              Same as zooming the image but there is no subpixel-level interpolation.

   Large-scale image smoothing:
       -a, --smooth <parameters>
              Perform a smoothing  on  the  image.  The  parameters  of  the  smoothing  are  the
              following:

       spline Do a spline interpolation smoothing

       polynomial
              Do a polynomial interpolation smoothing

       [xy]order=<order>
              Spatial  order  of the smoothing function. The order in the X and Y coordinates can
              be set independently, by setting "xorder=..." or "yorder=...".

       unity  Scale the resulting smoothed image to have a mean of 1.

       detrend
              The resulting image will be the original image divided by  the  best  fit  smoothed
              surface.

       [xy]hsize=<halfsize>
              Do a box filtering  with the given halfsize.

       mean   Use the mean value of the pixels for the box filtering.

       median Use the median value of the pixels for the box filtering.

       iterations=<iterations>
              Number of iterations to reject outlier pixels from the box.

       lower, upper, sigma=<sigma>
              Lower, upper or symmetric rejection level in the units of standard deviation.

   Noise estimation:
       -n, --noise
              Derive an image which reflects the "noise level" of the image.

   Slicing or exploding data cube images:
       -y, --layer <layer>
              Layer (z-axis index) of the desired image slice.

       -x, --explode <basename>
              Explode  the  input  image into individual planar (two dimensional) FITS image. The
              basename must contain at least one printf-like tag of %d, %i, %o, %x or %X that  is
              replaced by the appropriate layer number index.

       -y, --first-layer <n>
              Use the specified value for the first layer index. The subsequent layer indices are
              incremented normally. By default, the index of the first data cube layer is 0.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <apal@szofi.net>, see also http://fitsh.net/.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 1996, 2002, 2004-2008, 2010-2015; Pal, Andras <apal@szofi.net>