AFIDS Automated Fusion of Image Data System

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AFIDS Open Source AbstractAFIDS (Automated Fusion of Image Data System) is a library subset of the JPL VICAR (Video Image Communication and Retrieval) image processing system. VICAR began development in the 1960s in support of NASA/JPL's mission to explore the solar system. AFIDS forked in 2000 to focus on Earth orbital image co-registration in support of the NASA Earth Sciences program. Today, the effort is to re-integrate AFIDS back into VICAR and release it through the VICAR Open Source program. -AFIDS brings the concept of "georeferenced map images" to VICAR through the AFIDS "VicarGT" format (a compatible version of the industry standard "GeoTIFF" format). - AFIDS provides the ability to Ortho-Rectify and Co-Register orbital satellite imagery (using automated and customizable software).- AFIDS provides the image processing tools to perform scientific analysis and research of co-registered imagery (for example: Precision Change Detection).- AFIDS is rooted in Earth Science (supporting MISR, MAIA, CloudSat, EMIT, ECOSTRESS, OCO2, more), but also provides mapping support for Mars and Planetary orbital datasets (e.g., Mars Nest; AFIDS Mosaicking).AFIDS is a library collection of 200+ vicar-based programs and scripts, but also relies upon JPL and external 3rd party libraries including GDAL, GeoTIFF, Python, JPL GEOCAL, NASA NAIF/SPICE, and a variety of global databases.