For information on what the MDET algorithm is, take look at Optimal Multiwavelength Source Detection: Experience Gained from the WISE Mission (K. Marsh and T. Jarrett).
The MDET module was first written in 2008 for as part of the WISE catalog software pipeline at IPAC. Because the WISE computer cluster is occupied with ongoing satellite operations, we need to get the software running on independent systems not on the WISE cluster.
MDET is written in the Fortran programming language, using the extend source (132 column characters) format. MDET's only dependency (besides the standard libraries) is the FITSIO Subroutine Library. The FITSIO (Fortran Libraries) are written to always be backwards compatible, so simply download the latest version and install it normally. MDET was originally compiled under the Intel Fortran compiler, but we will be focusing on GNU Fortran since its public and open-source.
The build commands we use for MDET are
gfortran mdet.f -o mdet -m64 -O3 -ffixed-line-length-132 -L../cfitsio -lcfitsio
Replace -L../cfitsio with the directory where you are keeping the CFITSIO library. Be sure to run this command in the same directory as the MDET source files. mdet.f is the main source file for MDET.
The source files were obtained from the latest build on the WISE cluster. To my knowledge, the only documentation and version history of the source is what is provided in its files. Therefore, this repo can only start its version history in the state where the source was obtained.
[ToDo: Document usage]
MDET is written under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Contributors to MDET are required to follow the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct