AIPS NRAO AIPS HELP file for IMEAN in 31DEC25



As of Tue Dec 10 5:34:55 2024


IMEAN: Task to print the mean, rms and extrema in an image

INPUTS

DOHIST          -3.0         2.01  True (1.0) do histogram plot.
                                   = 2 => flux on x axis
USERID      -32000.0      32000.0  User ID.  ignored
INNAME                             Image name (name)
INCLASS                            Image name (class)
INSEQ            0.0       9999.0  Image name (seq. #)
INDISK           0.0          9.0  Disk drive #
BLC             -1.0       4096.0  Bottom left corner of image
                                     0=>entire image
TRC              0.0       4096.0  Top right corner of image
                                     0=>entire image
DOINVERS        -1.0          1.0  > 0 => histogram outside
                                   <=0 => inside BLC/TRC
NBOXES           0.0       1024.0  No. of ranges for histogram.
PIXRANGE                           Min and max range for hist.
FUNCTYPE                           'LG' => do log10 plot of #
                                   samples, else linear
DOMODEL        -1.0         1.0    > 0 fit, plot Gaussian
DOCAT          -1.0         3.0    Put true RMS in header
                                   >= 2 even for amall subimg.
DOALL           -1.0          1.0  >0 include pure zero pixels
LTYPE        -410.0       410.0    Type of labeling: 1 border,
                                   2 no ticks, 3 - 6 standard,
                                   7 - 10 only tick labels
                                   <0 -> no date/time
DOPRINT                            0 - no print, -3 brief
OUTTEXT                            Name of output log file,
                                   No output to file if blank
DOTV           -1.0         1.0    > 0 Do plot on the TV, else
                                   make a plot file
GRCHAN          0.0        88.0    Main graphics channel
                                      + 10 * label graphics chan
         @   Output only adverbs
PIXAVG   @                         Mean noise value
PIXSTD   @                         True noise rms
TRIANGLE @                         Brightness at the top 1 percent, 2 percent,
         @                         3 percent, ,,,50 percent of full histogram

HELP SECTION

IMEAN
Type: Task
Use:  IMEAN will read a portion of an image and print the mean and rms
      brightnesses found.  It also prints the location and value of the
      max and min brightnesses in that portion.  For clean maps, the
      mean is converted into a total flux.  An option to generate a
      histogram plot and/or print file is available.  It also computes
      the peak and rms of the histogram of the image in an attempt to
      determine the mean and rms of the noise part of the signal.  It
      determines the initial values for this from the header
      (ACTNOISE, ACTMEAN) or from a robust fit from the first plane of
      the image.  Note that pixel values which are exactly zero are
      not used in the fit for the rms.  This allows blanked pixels to
      be REMAGed to zero without affecting these computations.

      Three adverbs are returned by the task.  This allows the fit
      mean and noise to be used in other computations or tasks.  It
      also returns in TRIANGLE(i) the brightness level exceeded by i percent
      of the pixels.

      The aperture for the computation may be either rectangular or
      circular.

      The histogram is computed even if it will not be plotted since
      it may be printed.  Thus, BLC, TRC, DOINVERS, NBOXES, PIXRANGE
      are used even of DOHIST <= 0.

      A special one-line print option is available when DOPRINT=-3.
Adverbs:
  DOHIST......True (>0) means plot the histogram determined with
              NBOXES and PIXRANGE.  A second histogram is always
              computed, ignoring these adverbs, in an attempt to fit a
              Gaussian to the peak.  If that is succesful, the fit is
              plotted on any plotted histogram.  If 0 < DOHIST <= 1,
              then the flux is plotted on the Y axis and the counts on
              the X axis.  If DOHIST > 1, the axes are reversed -
              which is a more common form.
  USERID......User ID of owner of image.  Ignored.
  INNAME......Image name(name).         Standard defaults.
  INCLASS.....Image name(class).        Standard defaults.
  INSEQ.......Image name(seq. #).       0 => highest.
  INDISK......Disk drive # of image.    0 => any.
  BLC.........The Bottom Left-hand pixel of the subarray of the image to
              be analysed. The value (0,0) means (1,1).
              If BLC(1) = -1, then BLC(2) is taken as the radius of a
              circular aperture centered in TRC(1),TRC(2) which must
              be specified, not defaulted.
  TRC.........The Top Right-hand pixel of the subarray of the image to
              be analysed.  The value (0,0) means the top right hand
              corner of the entire image.
              See note about circular aperture under BLC above.
  DOINVERS....>  0 Do the histogram OUTSIDE the rectangular or
                   circular area defined by BLC/TRC
              <= 0 Do the histogram INSIDE (including borders) the
                   rectangular or circular area defined by BLC/TRC
  NBOXES......Number of boxes used in computing histogram for
              plotting.  The number of boxes used to compute the
              apparent noise rms is controlled by the task.
              <= 1 => 101 boxes,  > 1024 => 512
  PIXRANGE....Intensity range min/max over which plotted histogram is
              computed.  Max <= min (i.e. 0) => full range.  This is
              used to set the range between the center of box 1 and
              the center of box NBOXES.
  FUNCTYPE....Type of axis plot for number of samples in each box.  'LG'
              => log base 10, else linear.
  DOMODEL.....> 0 => fit a Gaussian to the histogram and plot it along
              with the histogram.
  DOCAT.......> 0 => write the new actual noise estimate as keyword
              ACTNOISE and the estimate zero level as ACTMEAN in the
              image header.  If BLC/TRC occupies less than 20 percent of a
              plane or less than 10 percent of a cube, this function will be
              done only if DOCAT >= 2.
  DOALL.......> 0  => all non-blank pixels are included in the
                      statistics.
              <= 0 => pure 0.0 pixels are excluded from the statistics.
  LTYPE.......Labelling type, see HELP LTYPE for details:
              1 = border, 2 = no ticks, 3 or 7 = standard, 4 or 8 =
              relative to ref. pixel, 5 or 9 = relative to subimage
              (BLC, TRC) center, 6 or 10 = pixels.  7-10 all labels
              other than tick numbers and axis type are omitted.
              Less than 0 is the same except that the plot file
              version number and create time are omitted.
              Add n * 100 to alter the metric scaling.
  DOPRINT.....Additional print control when OUTTEXT is not blank.
              = 0 => no printing, = -3 => print a single line giving
              BLC(3-7), TRC(3-7), minimum, maximum, flux, and rms all
              in one line.  For plots note that task RSPEC will
              compute rmses and plot the spectra (and print it too).
  OUTTEXT.....Output file to log measurements for later user processing.
              File created if it does not exist and appended to if it
              already exists.  Nothing is written to a file if the
              name is blank.  File name should contain directory and
              file parts, i.e, "LOCAL:IMEAN.OUT" or
              "RUNFIL:IMPORTANT.POINTS".  The histogram is printed into
              the file even if DOHIST <= 0.
  DOTV........> 0 => plot directly on the TV device, otherwise make a
              plot file for later display on one or more devices
              (including the TV if desired).
  GRCHAN.....Graphics channel (1 - 7) to use for line drawing.
             A value of 0 causes more than one graphics channel to be
             used.  To specify a channel to be used for plot labels
             add 10 * that graphics channel number.  If the label
             channel is zero, it is set to GRCHAN.  Use this to make
             labels 1 color and plot multiple plots on top of each
             other using different GRCHANs.  Note if one of the
             GRCHAN (lower digits) is to equal the label channel,
             then that must be the last of the overplots since the
             graphics channel is cleared before making the labels.
             Do not use the label channel if you plan to use TVCPS
             and specify the label channel there as well.  Note
             that channels 5, 6, and 7 are usable for labels and
             are not useful for overplotting.
Output adverbs
  PIXAVG......Mean value of the noise part of the image.  The final
              fit to the noise portion is returned.
  PIXSTD......RMS of the noise portion of the image.  The final fit is
              returned.
  TRIANGLE....TRIANGLE(i) returns the brightness which is exceeded by
              only i percent of the pixels.  Values for 1 to 50 percent are
              returned.  Note that the histoigram used to compute this
              is computed over the full intensity range of the image,
              not just PIXRANGE.

EXPLAIN SECTION


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