Rectification and enhancement of three severely distorted images of Jupiter's north polar region.
A number of high-resolution images of Jupiter's northern hemisphere were received from the imaging photo-polarimeter (IPP) aboard Pioneer 11 in 1974. Erratic scanning of the IPP caused severe distortions in three scientifically important images, which until now have never been satisfactorily restored. We report new rectification and enhancement techniques, implemented on up-to-date image processing hardware, yielding images of sufficient quality to enable full scientific exploitation of the photometric data.
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