Particle Image Correlation Velocimetry Software PICV3

PICV stands for Particle Image Correlation Velocimetry (software written in IDL)

• December 09 2020 *

This project is the 3rd version of the Particle Image Correlation Velocimetry Software (PICV)

PICV was created by Dr. Ricardo Hueso at UPV/EHU as a software tool to retrieve wind fields in images of planetary objects with atmospheres by analyzing the displacement of common regions found in images separated by a given amount of time.

Questions about the use of the software can be send to ricardo.hueso@ehu.eus If you use the software and find it useful please drop a line to the author.

The software is written in IDL and should be able to run in IDL6.0 or higher.

The software is distributed under creative commons license 4.0

The original version of the software is described in:

• Hueso et al. Icarus (2019), doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.05.004

Different versions of the software have been used in several publications including:

• Garcia-Melendo et al. Icarus 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.020
• Garate-Lopez et al. Nature Geoscience 2013, doi:10.1038/ngeo1764
• Barrado-Izagirre et al. A&A 2013, doi: 2013A&A...554A..74B
• Antuñano et al. JGRE, 2015, doi:10.1002/2014JE004709
• Hueso et al., GRL, 2017, doi:10.1002/2017GL073444
• Sánchez-Lavega et al., GRL, 2017, doi:10.1002/2017GL073421
• Sánchez-Lavega et al., AJ, 2018, doi: 10.3847/1538-3881/aada81
• Iñurrigarro et al., Icarus, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113475

The software has been shared openly in the past with other research teams including Pedro Machado's team at the Observatory of Lisbon and is available here for other users