ISIS Application Documentation
    Stitches together the typically eight individual scans of an Apollo Panoramic Image
  
 
          Description
        
    This program uses the Selection and CentroidApolloPan classes to find the centers of the fiducial marks along the image segments.  Conjugate fiducial marks between segments are used
	to calculate transformations to unite the segments.  The transformation math model is limited to three parameters (2 transformations and 1 rotation) because it is unlikely the
	film is undergoing any measureable dimensional changes during the scanning.  Thus, the intent of this program is to stitch together the image that would have been produced had there
	been a large enough scanner, and not to correct for any film degradation or other systematic error sources.  Those corrections are left to the camera model.
   
 
          Categories
        
 
              History
          
| Orrin Thomas | 2011-10-03 | 
      Created
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| Orrin Thomas | 2012-07-13 | 
      Application name changed from apollopansticher to apollopanstitcher
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| Raad A. Saleh | 2012-08-08 | 
      Program has been modified to accept long (more than 128 characters) file names without error.
      This fixes Mantis ticket # 1024.
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| Steven Lambright | 2012-12-26 | 
      Fixed a bug that caused this program to produce erroneous outputs a small percentage of
      the times it was run (less than 3% failure rate). The bad outputs looked valid - visually -
      but the stitching was incorrect (pixels would be in the wrong place). This was a general
      failure, not caused by a particular input or set of parameter values. Fixes #1053.
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| Lynn Weller | 2012-01-22 | 
      Application category name changed from Import and Export to Apollo.  Fixes mantis ticket #951.
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| Christopher Combs | 2017-06-29 | 
      Moved initialization of trans[7] to before the loop that uses it. Fixes #4948.
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                Parameter Groups
            
Files
| 
                    Name
                     | 
                    Description
                     | 
 
| TO | 
          Output image
         | 
 
 
File Base Name
| 
                    Name
                     | 
                    Description
                     | 
 
| FILE_BASE | 
          Apollo Panoramic Image Base Name
         | 
 
 
Resolution
| 
                    Name
                     | 
                    Description
                     | 
 
| MICRONS | 
	 Pixels size in microns
        | 
 
 
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Files:
                        TO
                         Description
                       
          Use this parameter to specify the name of the output cube.
        
| 
                             Type
                            | cube | 
| 
                               File Mode
                              | output | 
| 
                               Pixel Type
                              | real | 
 
 
File Base Name:
                        FILE_BASE
                         Description
                       
          Base Name of the eight subscans of an Apollo Panoramic image. For example, given the base name: "AS15_P_0330-", the first image would be expected to be "AS15_p_0330-0001.cub", the second
		"AS15_P_0330-0002.cub", etc.
        
| 
                             Type
                            | string | 
| 
                               File Mode
                              | input | 
 
 
Resolution:
                        MICRONS
                         Description
                       
	 The scanner resolution (dot size) in microns.