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astro-ph.IM2012★ 1 cited

FITS Checksum Proposal

Rob Seaman, William Pence, Arnold Rots

The checksum keywords described here provide an integrity check on the information contained in FITS HDUs. (Header and Data Units are the basic components of FITS files, consisting…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 5 cited

A Tiled-Table Convention for Compressing FITS Binary Tables

William Pence, Rob Seaman, Richard L. White

This document describes a convention for compressing FITS binary tables that is modeled after the FITS tiled-image compression method (White et al. 2009) that has been in use for a…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 10 cited

Tiled Image Convention for Storing Compressed Images in FITS Binary Tables

Richard L. White, Perry Greenfield, William Pence +2

This document describes a convention for compressing n-dimensional images and storing the resulting byte stream in a variable-length column in a FITS binary table. The FITS file st…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 2 cited

Optimal DN encoding for CCD detectors

Robert L. Seaman, Richard L. White, William D. Pence

Image compression has been a frequent topic of presentations at ADASS. Compression is often viewed as just a technique to fit more data into a smaller space. Rather, the packing of…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 50 cited

Lossless Astronomical Image Compression and the Effects of Noise

W. D. Pence, R. Seaman, R. L. White

We compare a variety of lossless image compression methods on a large sample of astronomical images and show how the compression ratios and speeds of the algorithms are affected by…

astro-ph2002★ 1 cited

Automated object classification with ClassX

A. A. Suchkov, T. A. McGlynn, L. Angelini +13

ClassX is a project aimed at creating an automated system to classify X-ray sources and is envisaged as a prototype of the Virtual Observatory. As a system, ClassX integrates into…