metadata describing an EBSD file before its measurement arrays are imported

Syntax

info = inspectEBSD('map.ctf')
rows = info.describe()

Description

inspectEBSD reads header information to identify the format, phases, properties and scan geometry. This result describes the file; it does not contain the loaded EBSD measurements. For a volume, grid and step have three entries. Metadata not available from the header remains unset.

Properties

path source filename
format detected file interface
vendor instrument or software vendor
size file size in bytes
date modification time when available
phases phaseList of declared crystal phases
properties available per-measurement property names
dataSets available data sets, when the format stores several
points measurement count when known
grid scan dimensions when known
step scan spacing along each grid axis
eulerCorrection rotation used to interpret the vendor Euler convention
unit spatial scan unit
header remaining header metadata
grains available grain data sets for volume formats
is3d whether the grid has three spatial dimensions

See also

inspectEBSD, loadEBSD, loadEBSD3

Members

describe the rows of the file information panel, name and value
eulerAxesNames the axis names the vendor writes its Euler angles in
extent the lengths the grid spans along its axes, in the scan unit
is3d whether the file holds a volume, which EBSD3.load reads
name the file name without its folder
source

Citing this page. This page is part of the documentation of MTEX, a free and open source MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and modeling crystallographic textures. It was written by The MTEX Developers and is published at https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/EBSDFileInfo_index_py.html. If you use MTEX, or reuse text or figures from this page, in your research, please cite

F. Bachmann, R. Hielscher, H. Schaeben: Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox, Solid State Phenomena 160 (2010), 63-68. 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63

BibTeX 
@article{bachmann2010mtex,
  author  = {F. Bachmann and R. Hielscher and H. Schaeben},
  title   = {Texture Analysis with MTEX - Free and Open Source Software Toolbox},
  journal = {Solid State Phenomena},
  volume  = {160},
  pages   = {63-68},
  year    = {2010},
  doi     = {10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.160.63}
}

Other papers describing specific MTEX methods are listed under Publications — please cite the one that best fits your application. The MTEX source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0; the text and figures of this documentation are licensed under CC BY 4.0, which permits reuse — including by automated systems — provided The MTEX Developers and this page are credited.