Re: Checking GSL for Spectroscopy

[Jeremy Theler]

Hi Fritz.
Since you mentioned MATLAB, I'd like to bring licensing issues here.

The GSL is released under the terms on the GPL. Make sure you
understand what this means.

Regards
--
jeremy theler
www.seamplex.com


On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 09:15 -0400, Fritz Sonnichsen wrote:
> I am preparing to convert MATLAB code to something more general. The new
> code will run on LInux and ARM processors.
>    For a lot of reasons I am not going to use Python. We also want to
> keep this project "close" to scientists and do not want to turn it into a
> full time computer programming job. So the final word is that I am looking
> for something that can be called by (and hopefully is written) in C. Worse
> case I will just write the code myself but would prefer to start
> integrating our systems into something with a lot of pre-written and vetted
> routines.
> 
> GSL looks like a good choice. Maybe R comes next. We have a mix of needs
> but I will point out a few:
> 1) Baselining a spectrum
> 2) Finding peaks in that spectrum
> 3) using Pearson correlation to compare the spectrum QUICKLY to
> about 50,000 recorded examples.
> 
> We also have some uses with basic statistics and we do some image
> processing.
> 
> So my question is--does GSL position itself in these areas? MATLAB (with
> packages) does them all.
>      I am not sure how active GSL, if it is keeping up with AI, imaging and
> spectroscopy--or is it fading or giving way to popular languages for
> example. I was surprised that the 600+ page manual did not seem to show
> anything relating to the simple spectral analysis described above for
> example. Certainly I can search the web for others' code but at some point
> if I cannot attach to a well established product I will just write it
> myself.
> 
> Any comments appreciated
> thanks
> Fritz