===== Some useful links for the Standard Imaging Pipeline =====

=== User Documentation ===
  * The latest release of the [[http://www.astron.nl/radio-observatory/lofar/lofar-imaging-cookbook/|Imaging Cookbook]] is available on the web.
  * The development version of the cookbook is available (read only!) from [[http://usg.lofar.org/svn/documents/trunk/Tutorials/Imaging/ | USG Subversion]].

=== MSSS processing ===
The processing of the MSSS observations will be done in an automated way by means of a few [[engineering:software:tools:msss-pipelines| pipelines]] that will be started automatically using the scheduler and SAS/MAC.

[[software:pipeline_changelist|Pipeline Framework Changelist]]

=== RTCP processing ===
  * {{ BandpassCorrection_v2.0.pdf | Subband passband correction at OLAP}} - John Romein

=== Useful Tools ===
  * [[engineering:software:tools:useful| Some handy tools and commands]]
  * [[engineering:software:tools:msselect| msselect]]: select baselines in a MeasurementSet
  * [[cexecms| cexecms]]: run a script on cluster nodes for all data files matching a file name pattern
  * [[engineering:software:tools:pipeline| Some scripts for running the pipeline]]
  * [[engineering:software:tools| A collection of useful tools and scripts that can be found in /opt/tools ]]
  * [[http://usg.lofar.org/documentation/pipeline/ | Pipeline framework documentation]]

=== DPPP ===
  * {{ lofar_dppp_flags.pdf | Pre-flag document}} - V.N. Pandey
  * {{ NDPPP_report.pdf | Testing of DPPP}} - David Rafferty, 11-Mar-2010
  * [[ndppp| DPPP documentation]]
  * [[engineering:software:tools:pythondppp| How to write a DPPP step in Python]]
  * [[http://usg.lofar.org/wiki/doku.php?id=workshops:2009-02_processing_school:exercise_05 | LOFAR Data Processing School DPPP Exercise]]
  
=== Beam Specification ===
  *  {{:software:lofarpoldef_v5.pdf| LOFAR Beam Definition Version 5.0}}- J. Hamaker et al.

=== BBS ===
  * [[bbs| BBS documentation]]
  * {{performance_JvZ.pdf | Initial BBS performance}} 07Jan08 - Joris van Zwieten
  * {{parmdb.pdf | parmdb: Parameter Database}} - Ger van Diepen
  * [[parmdbm| parmdbm]]: program to maintain a parameter table
  * [[parm-export| cross-calibration]]: ways to export (transfer) solutions
  * [[makesourcedb| makesourcedb, mergesourcedb, showsourcedb]]: programs to create/handle a Source Parameter Database
  * {{makems.pdf | makems: Creating (distributed) MeasurementSet}} - Ger van Diepen
  * [[makebeamtables| makebeamtables]]: add beam info to a MeasurementSet. Needed for BBS after makems.

=== Imaging ===
  * [[engineering:software:tools:mwimager| mwimager documentation]]
  * [[engineering:software:tools:cimagerdoc| cimager documentation]]
  * {{ mwimager.pdf | description of mwimager, clusterdesc and VDS files }} - Ger van Diepen.
  * {{ Cornwell_wprojection.pdf | W - Projection paper}} - Cornwell et al.
  * {{ FreqResLOFARimaging_v1.0.pdf | Specification of the Frequency Resolution}} - Ger de Bruyn
  * [[engineering:software:tools:cimager| Commissioning of the Imager - Last update Aug. 2008]] - Casey Law
  * [[engineering:software:tools:cimager:batejat| Commissioning of the Imager - Last update Oct. 2009]] - Evert Rol, Fabien Batejat
  * [[http://staff.science.uva.nl/~evert/lofar/imager | LOFAR Imager test documentation]] - Evert Rol

=== Ionosphere ===
  * {{Lions.pdf | Lions: Ionospheric Simulations}} 
  * {{Ion_Sim.pdf | Ionospheric Simulations and Calibratability}} - Ilse van Bemmel, Maaijke Mevius 
  * {{BBS_iono.pdf | Ionospheric Calibration in BBS}} 
  * See MWImager parset description below

=== Source Finding ===
  * {{ TKP_source_extraction.pdf | TKP Source Extraction System }} - John Swinbank
  * {{ TKP_source_extraction_description.pdf | TKP source extraction code description }} - Hanno Spreeuw
  * {{ TKP_notes_on_Duchamp.pdf | TKP notes on Duchamp }} - John Swinbank 

=== Global Sky Model ===
  * [[gsm.py| gsm.py: extract input for makesourcedb from GSM]]
  * {{tkp_expected_data_rates_volumes.pdf | Expected Data Rates and Volumes for the TKP}} - Bart Scheers
  * {{tkp_transient_variability_detection.pdf | Transient and Variability Detection Algorithms}} - Bart Scheers
  * {{cross_correlating_catalogues.pdf | Cross-Correlating Multiple Radio Catalogues}} - Bart Scheers

=== Integration of the Standard Imaging Pipeline ===
  * {{sip_v2.pdf | Standard Imaging Pipeline: first results}} 09Dec08 - Marcel Loose
  * {{TKP_pipeline_framework.pdf | TKP pipeline framework}} - John Swinbank

=== ParSet documentation ===
  * {{parameterset_3.pdf | LOFAR ParameterSet}} - Ger van Diepen
  * NDPPP: [[ndppp#description_of_all_parameters| NDPPP parameter set documentation]]
  * BBS: [[bbsconfigurationsyntax| BBS parameter set documentation]]
  * mwimager: [[engineering:software:tools:mwimagerparset| mwimager parameter set documentation]]

=== Other documents ===
  * {{TKP_notes_on_IPython.pdf | Notes on IPython}} - John Swinbank
  * {{TestSystem.pdf |LOFAR Software Testing}} - Ger van Diepen


==== Pipeline Profiling ====
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Some [[software:standard_imaging_pipeline:profiling| records of pipeline runs ]] are available for use in profiling.