Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
I have tested the new version 1.076 Beta this weekend. I chose the automatic function in 1) Calibrate and in 6) Intergate. The processing went without any problems and I also noticed a noticeable increase in processing speed. Very nice!
Would it be possible to create a list with the used identifiers in the file name and their description?
Thanks a lot!
Yes, I can have a go at it. A few I also don't know to be honest, Mult might be it's a multi-channel image, but I've asked Mabula to fill in the blanks. 🙂 Take it with a grain of salt at the moment as I can have some things wrong, this obviously needs better documentation. In the near future it'll not be in the filename anymore but in the metadata, and there one can put an extra desciption as well.
St = Stack
avg = The average stacking algorithm was used
AR = Adaptive rejection algorithm was used
LN = Local Normalization Correction at High and Low Kappa
LZ3 = Lanczos-3 data interpolation for registration
NS =
Full = The composition mode, full shows all registered pixels used in the various subs
Qua = The integration weights are set to Quality mode
Mult =
BMWV = BiWeight MidVariance, a calculation method to find the scale of the light frames (to correct for variance in the signal across frames).
AAD = Adaptive Airy Disc debayer algorithm
RE =
MBB5 = Multi Band Blending at 5%, to nicely blend edges into the image
