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Why does the quality of New Horizon LORRI images vary so much?
It turns out that the images on the OPUS website have been processed and calibrated to produce 8-bit images with the minimum intensity in each image set to 0 and the maximum intensity to 255. (The ...
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Turbo code used in New Horizons - encoding coefficient?
Reproducing CCSDS 101.0-B-4 Table 4-2:
Information block length k
Codeblock length n for rate 1/2
for rate 1/3
for rate 1/4
for rate 1/6
1784
3576
5364
7152
10728
3568
7144
10714
14288
21432
7136
...
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