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Aug 22 2008, 01:58 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I heard about this 24 hours ago, and couldn't believe it - this is EXACTLY what has been missing from ESA. MASSIVE kudos to the ESOC MEX flight ops team for doing it
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/VMC/index.html The last time I wrote a post and hit 'submit' at UMSF with a smile this big on my face, was when Oppy successfully got out of Purgatory. |
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Nov 27 2009, 02:01 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 27-August 08 From: Darmstadt, Germany Member No.: 4320 |
Yep, that was certainly my thinking, I want to leave the zip of the raw files exactly as-is, all the processing I do there is literally stripping the data out of the downlink packets, removing packet headers and splitting them into individual images. For the "instant gratification" PNG images though this could be a really nice addition. I also might look into systematically boosting the colour levels or sharpening as described if it's possible.
Just as some background...what currently happens is my Java software does the stripping described above (into the raws) then I call from Java ugordan's vmc2rgb v2 convert them into PNGs and then the Java packages it all up and posts it on the blog. The aim is to keep it "hands off" so no operator needs to be present and the time from downlink to being online can be kept as short as possible. Therefore we would need to work out a way to either implement any enhancement in my Java code or in vmc2rgb or a similar external exe that could be called from the command line. Any ideas or suggestions let me know! -------------------- |
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