What software is available for processing of LWS images?
The trickiest part of the LWS data reduction effort is to combine properly the six dimensions of the FITS image into a co-added chop-nod image. Once that is done, standard optical/IR processing packages such as IRAF are well suited to further processing. The WMKOLWS package is an IRAF package written by CARA for LWS which features a task called lwscoadd to transform the 6-D images into 2-D arrays. It is available on-line here at Keck and can be downloaded for installation at your home institution; see the package link above to retrieve the code from our FTP site. IDL users can retrieve IDL software which contains an LWS version of lwscoadd.
