IMAT auto reduction FITS -> NXTomo

[mantid-builder]

This issue was originally TRAC 10696

Original Reporter: John Hill

Produce an auto reduction script for IMAT to take FITS files and combine them into a single NXTomo file on SCARF.

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Keywords: IMAT

[mantid-builder]

@NickDraper (2015-04-27T08:10:34):
Moved to R3.5 at the R3.4 code freeze

[FedeMPouzols]

I'd close this as "won't happen".

I don't see this happening for now (in an horizon of at least many months). From the camera machine the FITS files are being zipped and transferred to the control machine, archive, and SCARF.

NXTomo is not a practical option as a general input format at the moment because is not supported by any of the third party tools that are going to be used by IMAT scientists and users.

When Savu is ready, there's now the possibility to add a plugin to load data from FITS files.
That's not to say that we want to absolutely discard NXTomo as it has a number of advantages.

On the bright side we have decent support for NXTomo already in place. But the process to combine FITS files into NXTomo is probably not going to happen as autoreduction at ISIS.

(Note: the commits that are shown here are unrelated to this issue, they came here just because a mistake in the refs number).