New plugins were developed to integrate ImageJ in workflows centered on the Virtual Observatory (VO) environment.
In the scope of Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access (VESPA) project, a specific plug-in has been developed to provide SAMP connection and receive images from other VO tools.
This development also improves the support of fits files and compressed formats in ImageJ.
The plugins were tested with recent versions of ImageJ (v1.53t) and AstroImageJ (v5.1.3), which both required significant modifications with respect to previous versions. Since ImageJ result analysis can be of various types (image, tables, vectors, spectra…), no SAMP feedback connection has been installed at this point.
The new SAMP connection to ImageJ will provide extended visualization (e.g., TIFF format, especially useful from search clients), conversion between various image formats, and high level image processing functions to the VO.
Europlanet 2024 RI has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149