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Last Updated Jan 2001
Copyright © 2001 The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Purpose :
Compress Image for publication.Procedure :
Breaks image into a grid of tiles and applies H-transform to compress data for each individual tile. Data is written to a [.comp] subdirectory.Calling Sequence :
- VIMCOMPRESS imagefile region sky_sigma
- Note: This will compress VIM files only!
Availability :
- GSSS AXP - yes
- GSSS VAX - yes
- PIXELS - no
History/Author :
- Original Implementation - Marc Postman
- Integrated into pipeline - Brian McLean