S2FIL provides functionality to support optimal filtering on the sphere. Optimal directional matched (MF) and scale adaptive (SAF) filters may be constructed from a template and stochastic background process. Functionality is also incorporated to filter a sky data map with an optimal filter. Moreover, a simple object detection algorithm is implemented to extract embedded object parameters from the filtered field.
Functionality to support functions defined on the sphere is provided by the S2 code; template objects are defined in the COMB code; and functionality to perform fast directional filtering on the sphere is provided by the FastCSWT code.