Introduction

The LSST applications framework provides the basic functionality needed by an image processing system. In particular:

Images : Representation of Images (and Masks)
How to manipulate images from python : How to manipulate images from python
How to display images : How to display images
Mathematical Operations : Mathematical functions such as convolution and image statistics
Detection : Detection of sources in images
Tables : Table and record classes for catalog data
CameraGeom : Camera geometry, including transformation between camera-based coordinate systems