PISA2ARD

The PISA2ARD application converts the results file output from PISAFIND into an `ARD description'. This description consists of a series of ellipses - one for each detected object. The ARD description can be used by suitable applications to remove or analyse the areas within the ellipses. So for instance to remove all the detected objects from a frame, convert the results file into an ARD description (with the ellipses possibly scaled by some small amount to remove outlying parts) and use an ARD masking routine, such as KAPPA ARDMASK. ARD is also used by the packages ESP [10] and CCDPACK [11].