Compress raw data
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METHOD"
. This task is
intended to be a test bed of compression algorithms. "
OLD"
- converts 32-bit integers to 16-bit integers by calculating a common mode signal at each time
slice and a multiplicative value (BZERO and BSCALE) after removing the first measurement
(STACKZERO).
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DELTA"
- stores the differences between adjacent bolometer samples as 16-bit integers. Any values
for which the differences are too big to be stored in 16 bits are stored explicitly in 32 bit integers (see
SUN/11 for full details).
[DELTA]
Data will be uncompressed automatically by any SMURF routine.
Files may well be larger when compressed.