<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, Trent and Evan, I'm building GDAL from source download rather than using the "recommended" dmg listed. I'll let you know when I get it working with CFITSIO and provide the steps in case you need them for someone else.</div><div><br></div><div>-susan<br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:13 PM Trent Hare <<a href="mailto:thare@usgs.gov">thare@usgs.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<span style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Susan, </span><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> Yes - the FITS format is supported in GDAL once compilation has been linked to CFITSIO. </div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Note this driver is currently being enhanced to (1) better support FITS files within GDAL and (2) the format FITS will have an extension added to it, which allows more typical GIS map projection support. That branch of GDAL is being worked on Chiara Marmo: <a href="https://github.com/epn-vespa/gdal/tree/fits_driver" target="_blank">https://github.com/epn-vespa/gdal/tree/fits_driver</a></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">For Mac, I'm not sure this will work, but on Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu) this should get you FITS support in GDAL (and also get QGIS with FITS also).</div><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br><u>In order to have QGIS working with FITS</u><br><ul><li>install CFITSIO (Fedora : cfitsio-devel ; Ubuntu : libcfitsio-dev)</li><li>install GDAL (Fedora : gdal-devel ; Ubuntu : libgdal-dev)</li><li>install QGIS</li></ul></div>
<div><br></div><div><b><u>Temporary workaround</u>: </b></div><div> So a method Chiara created to test GDAL for FITS users is a simple Python script which creates a GDAL VRT header pointing into the FITS file. Once the VRT is created, any GDAL program can use it by pointing at the VRT file (gdal_translate, QGIS, ArcMap, ...). Perhaps that is worth a shot.</div><div><a href="https://github.com/epn-vespa/fits2vrt" target="_blank">https://github.com/epn-vespa/fits2vrt</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, once the FITS driver is updated we will try to support an anaconda version of GDAL with CFITSIO pre-built for users (should help Macs users too).</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div>Trent</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>P.S. maybe a little un-tested <b>build help</b> (linux again - sorry).</div><div><br></div><div>Install <span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">CFITSIO<span> </span></span>
</div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Clone/download the GDAL repo.</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">$ cd gdal/gdal</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">you have compiled there the '</span><span class="m_-5963134429111396479gmail-il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">fits</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">-driver' branch, using</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">$ ./configure</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">In that same repo you have a config.log file.</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">If you grep cfitsio in config.log you must have (among others, and depending on your distro)</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">EXTRA_INCLUDES='-I/usr/include</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">/cfitsio '</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">LIBS='-lcrypto -lexpat -ljasper -ljpeg -lgeotiff -ltiff -lpng -lcfitsio -lz -lpthread -lm -lrt -ldl -lpcre'</span></div><div>now </div><div>$ ./make <br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div>more: <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix</a></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:59 AM Susan Borda <<a href="mailto:sborda@umich.edu" target="_blank">sborda@umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Evan, I saw that mentioned in the formats list but I'm not sure how to "build GDAL" with this library. I just downloaded GDAL and it uses Python 3.6 but the version of CFITSIO I found uses Python 2.x. I'm using a Mac but can easily run all of this on Linux VM if need be.</div><div><br></div><div>-susan<br> </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:45 PM Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On jeudi 5 juillet 2018 12:41:08 CEST Susan Borda wrote:<br>
> Hi-<br>
> I'm new to gdal and am trying to use gdalinfo to read a *.fits file<br>
> (astronomy files), specifically the header. When I list the formats<br>
> supported by gdalinfo, I'm only seeing FIT not FITS. Is FITS no longer<br>
> supported?<br>
<br>
It is, but you must build GDAL against the CFITSIO library:<br>
<a href="http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#FITS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#FITS</a><br>
<br>
On Debian and derivatives, this is the libcfitsio-dev package.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Susan Borda<br><div>Data Workflows Specialist<br></div><div>Research Data Services<br></div><div>University of Michigan Libraries<br></div><div>3175 Shapiro Library</div><div>734-764-9134 | <a href="mailto:sborda@umich.edu" target="_blank">sborda@umich.edu</a><br></div><div> <br></div></div></div>