OASIS Future Plans
Future development of Oasis will be driven by user
feedback and the needs of IRSA to serve the infrared sky
to the astronomical community. The following are already
in development or awaiting testing. Comments and
suggestions are welcome, and should be sent to
oasis@ipac.caltech.edu
Science User Functionality
- Client-side DBMS functionality. Much of the
data retrieved from archive services is in the form of
tables. We are investigating the possibility of
including basic DBMS functionality (sort, search,
subset) within Oasis using third-party tools such as
CloudScape. This would allow such processing as
"mark all sources with flux > 10 Jy" or
"sort the result table by magnitude".
- Image compositing. Rather than write a great
deal of code to composite images (most of which would
be a poor version of programs like PhotoShop) we have
opted for simply supporting "JPEG with coordinates". In
other words, Oasis can use a JPEG image as a backdrop,
so long as there is associated WCS information
available (currently in the form of a separate
FITS-header-like ASCII file. We plan to build a simple
tool (using JAI) to perform basic compositing but
expect most people to use commercial software for true
image manipulation.
Enabling Technology
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