PDSView

PDSView provides support for visualizing PDS3 and PDS4 data products.

Features

• Visualization of PDS3 data products
• Visualization of PDS4 data products

Installation

Prebuilt packages of PDSView are available; simply download the version relevant to your platform from the project's GitHub releases page (click "Assets" under your chosen release version). Details for each platform are given below.

Linux

Download and unpack PDSView-linux.zip to extract the executable file PDSView; run this file. Note you'll need to be running the X Window System. Depending on your window manager, you may be able to drag files from the file explorer on your platform directly into PDSView's main window. Otherwise, choose "Open" from the tool's "File" menu to open PDS data products.

macOS

Download and unpack PDSView-macOS.zip to extract the executable PDSView.app which you can drag to your /Applications folder or other convenient location. Note that because this is an unsigned program, you will need to control-click (⌃+click) or right-click its icon and choose "Open", followed by clicking the "Open" button, to start PDSView. The tool is known to work on the following versions of macOS:

• 10.13.6 "High Sierra"
• 10.14.3–6 "Mojave"

Other releases may or may not work. In addition, drag-and-drop from Finder or the desktop is not guaranteed to work on macOS at all. In this case, choosing "Open" from the "File" menu is recommended.

Windows

Two downloads are provided and tested on 64-bit Windows version 10. These versions are identical except as noted below:

• PDSView-Windows-single-exe.zip. Downloading and unpacking this archive yields a single executable file PDSView.exe that you can double-click to launch. Note that it may take a long time for the tool to launch and its initial window to appear. Pro: single, easy to find .exe file. Con: Slow time to start the program.
• PDSView-dir.zip. Downloading and unpacking this archive yields a directory of many files with a PDSView.exe file inside. Double-click this file to launch; the window will appear much faster. Pro: Fast start. Con: harder to find the .exe file in a directory littered with hundreds of other files.

Which one you use is a matter of preference. Regardless, drag-and-drop from the Windows desktop or file Explorer works fine. (Other versions of Windows are untested; we would love to hear back with your success stories.)

Other Platforms

For platforms not covered above, you can download the source code from the releases page (click "Assets" under the appropriate release version) as either a zip or a tar.gz archive. Your system will require the following:

• Python 2.7
• Qt4
• PyQt4
• PDS4 Tools

See your system documentation or packaging manager to install these dependencies. (A Python "virtualenv" is recommended to keep from polluting your system Python with extraneous packages.) Once installed, you can run the tool from the unpacked archive using the prepared Python.

For example, a Unix-like (including macOS-like) system could do the following:

# == Install Python 2.7, Qt4, and PyQt4 per platform-specifics ==
# (commands not shown here)
# == Create a virtualenv sandbox and install PDS4 tools into it ==
virtualenv --system-site-packages /tmp/mypython
cd /tmp/mypthon
bin/pip install matplotlib seaborn
# == Download and extract PDSView ==
curl -L 'https://github.com/NASA-PDSr/pds-view/archive/v0.1-beta.tar.gz' | tar xzf -
cd pds-view-0.1-beta
# == Install its dependencies ==
../bin/python setup.py develop
# == Run it ==
env MPLBACKEND=Qt4Agg ../bin/PDSView

Adjust the above commands as needed for your platform.

Documentation

Additional documentation is available in the docs directory and at https://pds-cm.jpl.nasa.gov/pds4/preparation/inspect/ … note this is only available within the Jet Propulsion Laborary.

Translations

This product has not been translated into any other languages than US English.

Contribute

Within the NASA Planetary Data System, we value the health of our community as much as the code. Towards that end, we ask that you read and practice what's described in these documents:

• Our contributor's guide delineates the kinds of contributions we accept.
• Our code of conduct outlines the standards of behavior we practice and expect by everyone who participates with our software.

Meanwhile please check out:

• Our issue tracker
• And the source Code

Support

If you are having issues, please let us know. You can reach us at https://pds.nasa.gov/contact/contact.shtml

License

The project is licensed under the Apache License, version 2. See the LICENSE.md file for details.