PINGSOFT: An IDL visualisation and manipulation tool for integral field spectroscopic data

In this article we introduce PINGSOFT, a set of IDL routines designed to visualise and manipulate, in an interactive and friendly way, integral field spectroscopic (reduced) data. The package is optimised for large databases and a fast visualisation rendering. Here we describe its major characteristics and requirements, providing examples and describing its capabilities. The PINGSOFT package is freely available at: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/research/pings (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.