Those of you who have used Montage probably know it as a toolkit for processing images to create mosaics. It is, however, finding applicability in the visualization of images, as described in “The Application of Montage to the Visualization of Astronomical Images,” by Bruce Berriman and John Good. It is an Open Access paper published in a PASP Special Focus Edition on Visualization, edited by Brian Kent.
You can watch a video abstract of the paper here:
There are several areas where Montage brings value to visualization work, primarily because its design as a toolkit enables integration into software environments:
- Integration into visualization environments, usually asa reprojection engine to co-register and re-project multi-wavelength images to a common set of image parameters, and represent them in a common coordinate system. Examples are JS9 and APLPy. Luciani et al 2014 integrated Montage into a highly-scalable client-server architecture intended as a…
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Montage Image Mosaic Software 