# idl

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** idl
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://www.harrisgeospatial.com/SoftwareTechnology/IDL.aspx](http://www.harrisgeospatial.com/SoftwareTechnology/IDL.aspx)

## Software Description

IDL (Interactive Data Language) is a widely used general purpose
visualization package. With IDL, you can create graphs and visualize 2
and 3 - D data using contours, iso-surfaces and slices. IDL has image
processing capabilities such as smoothing, sharpening and thresholding.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load idl

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of idl available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail idl