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Levinthal et al. 1977
Levinthal, E.C., Green, W., Jones, K.L. and Tucker, R. (1977). Processing the Viking lander camera data. Journal of Geophysical Research 82: doi: 10.1029/JB082i028p04412. issn: 0148-0227.

Over 1000 camera events were returned from the two Viking landers during the Primary Mission. A system was devised for processing camera data as they were received, in real time, from the Deep Space Network. This system provided a flexible choice of parameters for three computer-enhanced versions of the data for display or hard-copy generation. Software systems allowed all but 0.3% of the imagery scan lines received on earth to be placed correctly in the camera data record. The second-order processing system was developed which allowed extensive interactive image processing including computer-assisted photogrammertry, a variety of geometric and photometric transformations, mosaicking, and color balancing using six different filtered images of a common scene. These results have been completely cataloged and documented to produce an Experiment Data Record.

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