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LOFAR User Software

This page will redirect you to build instructions for the LOFAR common software packages. Unfortunately there are two confusing names for two very different software bases:

  • LOFAR Software → the package used and maintained by ASTRON containing control software, pipelines, AwImager, AOFlagger; this is the package developed and elaborated and used in the LOFAR production environment
  • LUS (LOFAR USer Software) → package maintained by the KSPs (Key Science projects) containing the pulsar pipelines tools, the Cosmic Ray tools, etc.

There are basically two ways to obtain the LOFAR Offline software.

  1. You can also use this Docker repo, which contains docker images uploaded by the LOFAR Software team. For more information on their use, see here.

Note: additional documentation can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/lofar-astron)

  • Go to documentation this page for documentation on DPPP, BBS,etc…

The Dynspec package (Dynamic Spectrum toolkit) can be downloaded and used as well.

  • Last modified: 2018-07-15 08:29
  • by Marco Iacobelli