[gnu-soc] Gnuastro in GSOC 2020

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear Jose and all,

Thank you very much for the notice. C you please include the following 
task (in P.S) for Gnuastro.

Thank a lot for organizing this,
Cheers,
Mohammad

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Name of the GNU program: GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)

Summary of the project/idea:
Improving Image Processing tools in GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)

Little paragraph explaining the project/idea:
Gnuastro is a large collection of data analysis programs and libraries, 
in particular image processing tools, the full list of programs and 
libraries along with some tutorials can be seen in [1], [2] and [3]. 
Gnuastro's programs already contain many image processing tools for 
professional (research quality) usage. However, there are still many 
tools that remain to be added, for example image registration (finding 
the warp necessary to match images), non-linear warping (for example 
correcting optical distortions or gravitational lensing) or de-blending 
tools (for example to separate galaxies that are in one line of sight). 
The full list of open tasks (for all programs/libraries are available in 
[4]. If you are interested in image processing, programming in C 
(astronomical datasets are large and thus need to be efficient) and in 
the meantime learning some astronomy and working with major telescope 
data, please get in touch.

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Gnuastro-programs-list.html
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Gnuastro-library.html
[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Tutorials.html
[4] http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?group=gnuastro

Skills required: C programming, image processing (optional)

Contact address for interested students: address@hidden