![]() I’ve never seen FITS files used in GIS however, I have noticed that GDAL does support reading FITS files. Images taken by CCDs on telescopes were generally delivered as FITS files and to my knowledge they still are. So the idea I’m putting forth isn’t just to look at some nearby galaxies in ArcMap, but that using Python with ArcGIS, we could make some spectacular and interactive maps of the universe.Ĭomposite of GLIMPSE I and II and MIPSGAL data of the Milky Way galactic planeĪstronomy from the Perspective of a Geographerīack in my grad student days (2005 - 2008), SOAImage DS9 was the default viewer for astronomers and IDL was the most common programming language and environment. ![]() ![]() It might not sound too practical to use ArcGIS to look at observations from a space telescope however, I think that the image processing capabilities in ArcGIS could be really powerful tools to use to create a large scale map of the universe. So I decided to devote some time to figuring out how to use astropy and arcpy to bring these images into ArcMap and work towards creating some spectacular maps of the nearby infrared universe. images) from Spitzer Space Telescope into ArcMap. Having not done anything with astronomy for the past eight years, I was very pleased to discover astropy and I immediately saw that there was potential for me to use astropy and arcpy to bring observations (i.e. Over the past few months I’ve been exploring the various Python packages that I could use for astronomy. So since joining Esri five years ago, I’ve had it on my mind to use ArcGIS to map the infrared universe using observations from Spitzer Space Telescope observations with which I already have some familiarity. In a previous life, I was fortunate to study astronomy and work with some of the coolest hyperspectral data collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. How to Map the Infrared Universe with Astropy and ArcGIS
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