SAMS

SAMS (Spectral Analysis and Management System) is a software package that allows you to handle spectra analyzes and multiple databases.

It comes with lots of interesting tools that you can check out, together with options that you can adjust.

SAMS sports an intuitive graphical interface with plenty of tools at hand and animation to make it easier to handle spectral data. Spectra may be processed by many different software packages, including general purpose data analysis programs and array-based programming languages.

However, SAMS comes with some features that other software solutions don't have.

Spectra data may be entered in the native formats or it may be imported as ASCII (plain text) files and the program will ‘guess’ the number of header lines and how the data are organized.

It normally does a pretty good job of this, but it is important to check by viewing the data. Spectra may be organized into groups for convenience and saved in SAMS databases.

Spectra are linked to metadata (data about data). These additional metadata fields may be used to store additional information about the target or the conditions of measurement, for example.

It displays all data in a directory tree listing, you can select the information from there. Data can be plotted by clicking on the file and you can set the axis range to suitable values. You can change the name of axis and organize data into subgroups if you'd like.

You would have to be patient when using this application, as it may take some time to calibrate information and apply changes. When you're done working, you can connect to your printer and print the data.

There's also the option to export data to an ASCII file. SAMS is a very nice software solution for handling spectra data and editing metadata.