Technical reference map

Use this section for exact behavior: stage order, filenames, interfaces, data formats, validation, algorithms, and internals. If you want a guided task, return to the educational vignettes.

Pipeline contracts

• Stage order and restart behavior
• Outputs and file structure
• Naming conventions

Interfaces

• Command-line interface
• Configuration
• Python API

Data and validation

• Working with Parquet
• JSON schemas
• QA panels and metrics
• Validation metrics

Algorithms and extension

• BRDF and topographic correction
• Extending SpectralBridge

Runtime and internals

• Environment
• Package architecture
• Container and remote helpers

Publication evidence

For the historical manuscript evidence and complete SI, use the technical supplement. Current instructions and contracts remain in the workflow/reference pages.

Reviewer and publication paths

• Scientific need and measurement differences
• Installation and bounded example
• Tests, contribution and development checks
• Evidence hierarchy and limitations
• Citation and paper status
• Release and reproducibility gates
• License and provenance and attribution
• JOSS author checklist

Historical audits remain under development history; their counts and blockers describe their recorded revisions, not the current checkout.