DASCutils

Digital All Sky Camera utilities for U. Alaska Geophysical Institute cameras, supporting image reading, calibration, projection, format conversion, and visualization.

Digital All Sky Camera utilities for the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute cameras. This software provides utilities for plotting, saving, and analyzing data from the Poker Flat Research Range Digital All Sky Camera and other locations. It reads FITS format all-sky camera images, performs spatial calibration using azimuth/elevation plate scale data, supports map projection to specified altitudes for auroral and airglow analysis, converts FITS image stacks to HDF5 format with lossless compression, and creates visualizations including movies and projected images. The software handles corrupted FITS files from the 2013 RAID array failure and supports multi-wavelength image analysis for scientific studies of aurora and airglow phenomena.