imcattools_objectfinding - imcattools_objectfinding tools section

This section contains tools for finding objects and making charts of them. It also contains 'minisky' which is useful for flattening images. 'surfdens' is used to generate a fits image consisting of 'points of light' from a catalogue.

chunkyfp - perform peak finding by dividing image into chunks

findpeaks - simple object finder

getbadpix - reject discrepant pixels

hcat2cat - process hfindpeaks output

hfindpeaks - hierarchical object finder

makechart - overlay FITS image with object markers

makestamps - extract 'postage stamp images'

minisky - make a smooth local sky flat from cat of minima

surfdens - generate a fits image from a catalogue

Nick Kaiser -- kaiser@hawaii.edu