This Chapter is intended to help the observer getting started with
LWS data. It gives some hints and ideas how to proceed with the
processing steps that are not performed in the standard pipeline
processing, but are useful to make a spectrum that can be published
out of the data products. It is by no means intended to give a full
guide of all possible ways to do certain processing steps.
The sections in this chapter only give an outline of the
different steps needed for the individual post processing steps.
Most spectral data analysis
packages will have routines that perform the tasks given below.
All processes described below can be performed using the
ISO Spectral Analysis Package (ISAP). This package has been
written in collaboration by the LWS and SWS consortia and IPAC
in the USA. This analysis package is available for
observers from MPE
(see www page: http://www.mpe.garching.mpg.de/iso/isosdc.html),
and IPAC (http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/iso/iso.html).