VICAR, which stands for Video Image Communication And Retrieval, is a general purpose image processing software system that has been developed since 1966 to digitally process multi-dimensional imaging data.

We are pleased to announce that the VICAR Core is now available in Open Source form! Please visit the VICAR Open Source release homepage:

http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/vicar_open.html.

This release includes:

• Almost 350 application programs
• Command-line parsing (shell) and optional environment (TAE)
• VICAR-format image I/O library
  • Both C/C++/Fortran and Java versions
• File Format Conversion (transcoder)
  • Convert between most common file formats
    • Including VICAR, PDS, ISIS, FITS
  • Preserves metadata
• xvd image display program
• IBIS (Image-Based Information System) for tabular data
  • Efficient handling of large data sets

For a full list of programs being released click here.

For details of the release in the VICAR presentation from the 2nd Planetary Data Workshop in Flagstaff, AZ in June 2015 click here.

We have set up a VICAR Open Source Google group, where you can find notifications of new releases, bug reports, and general discussion. You can join the group here.

The VICAR source code can be obtained via github.com using the links below. In addition to the VICAR source code an externals package containing 3rd party software is required.

Note that for externals you'll find a tarball that contains all the platforms, as well as separate ones for each platform. Externals are 3rd party packages that are required to run VICAR. See section 2 of the Building VICAR document for more information. You need only the one that applies to your machine type.

• Main VICAR source code: Click to download
• Solaris externals: Click to download
• Linux 32-bit externals: Click to download
• Linux 64-bit externals: Click to download
• Mac OS X externals: Click to download
• All externals (don't get unless you know you need this): Click to download

• The VICAR installation guide can be found here.
• The VICAR quick-start guide can be found here.

Questions: vicar_help@jpl.nasa.gov