5.6.1 BCS_DECOMP


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5.6.1 BCS_DECOMP

The BCS data are normally compressed from a 12-bit word to an 8-bit word. BCS_DECOMP takes the compressed data array (data) and creates a floating point array (ndat) of the decompressed numbers by typing:
IDL> ndat = bcs_decomp(data)
 


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