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Bad-Pixel Methods

Starlink standard data formats support two methods of handling bad data: magic value (which flags specified pixels as undefined) and data quality (a more general mechanism, which may be used to indicate any attribute of selected pixels, including ``badness''). Magic value is simple and efficient. Data quality is flexible and preserves the original data.


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Starlink Standard Data Structures
Starlink General Paper 38
Malcolm J Currie, P T Wallace &
R F Warren-Smith
1989 January 20
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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