The Standard Imaging Pipeline

The Standard Imaging Pipeline (or SIP) will accept raw data from the LOFAR correlator, pre-process it, calibrate it, image it, and update the sky model with the sources detected in the data. This section describes the components of the SIP and how they fit together.

It should be emphasised that, at least during development stages, there is not a single, ideal imaging pipeline. Instead, the user is encouraged to compose a pipeline which meets their needs by selecting their preferred combination of individual recipes.

Note that none of the SIP recipes make use of IPython, so configuration and usage should be relatively simple.

• CEP Quickstart
  • Set up your environment
  • Make a job directory
  • Prepare parsets describing how to run the pipeline components
  • Prepare your task definitions
  • Prepare a pipeline definition
  • Prepare a VDS file describing your data
  • Run the pipeline
• Standard Imaging Pipeline recipes
  • Calibrator Pipeline
  • Target Pipeline
  • Imager Pipeline
• Highlevel flowcharts for individual pipelines