aslist: List the supported image surveys

Package: astcat

Usage

aslist catalogs

Parameters

imsurveys

The names of the image surveys to be listed. If surveys = "*" then all the image surveys in the image survey configuration file are listed.

verbose = no

List the image survey wcs and keyword information after the image survey name ?

imdb = ")_.imdb"

The image survey configuration file. The value of imdb defaults to the value of the package parameter of the same name. The default image survey configuration file is "astcat$lib/imdb.dat".

Description

Aslist lists the supported image surveys specified by the imsurveys parameter. If imsurveys = "*" then all the supported image surveys are listed, otherwise only the image survey names specified by the user are listed. Valid image survey names have the form imsurvey@site, e.g. "dss1@cadc". If verbose = "yes", then the image survey wcs and keyword information is listed after the image survey name.

The image survey names, addresses, query formats, output formats, wcs formats, and keyword formats, are specified in the image survey configuration file imdb. By default the image survey configuration file names defaults to the value of the imdb package parameters. The default image survey configuration file is "astcat$lib/imdb.dat". Users can add records to this file or create their own configuration file.

Examples

1. List all the image surveys in the image survey configuration file.

cl> aslist *

2. List the wcs and keyword information for the dss1@cadc image survey.

cl> aslist dss1@cadc verbose+

Time requirements

Bugs

See also

aclist