Ana (programming language)
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In contexts of solar physics and data analysis, Ana is a computer language that is designed for array processing and image data analysis. The name is an acronym for "A Non Acronym". Ana began as a fork of an early version of IDL, but has diverged significantly since then. It is particularly notable for being the only known fork of IDL from its early days as a quasi-open-source software package.
Ana was in common use at the Lockheed-Martin Space Applications Laboratory and at institutions that analyzed data from the TRACE spacecraft, but was not commonly used elsewhere. Ana was used to implement several important data visualization tools that significantly advanced the state of the art, in the late 20th Century.[1] Ana appears to have been intended as free software though it is not distributed under a recognized FOSS license. It remains available as source code, primarily through the Solarsoft distribution system.
The most commonly used application written in Ana is the TRACE image browser, which is designed for browsing and viewing time-lapse movies collected by TRACE, SOHO, Yohkoh, and other observatories.
Ana homepage: [1]
- ^ N.E. Hurlburt, R.A. Shine, and T.D. Tarbell 1997: "Interactive Interface for Visualizing and Analyzing Multispectral Solar images", Proc. SPIE 3017, doi: https://doi.org/10.111712.270325
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