@TechReport{TR088,
  author =	 "Ernst Hirz and Ahmed Nabil Belbachir and Robert
                  Sablatnig",
  title =	 "Software Tool for HERSCHEL/PACS Data Decompression
                  and Analysis",
  institution =	 "PRIP, TU Wien",
  number =	 "PRIP-TR-088",
  year =	 "2004",
  url =		 "https://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/pripfiles/trs/tr88.pdf",
  abstract =	 "This work is about the design and development of a
                  standalone tool for the decompression of data from
                  the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer
                  (PACS), one of the instruments housed inside the
                  HERSCHEL Space Observatory (HSO). This is a part of
                  an on-ground processing software package, with the
                  purpose to provide an instrument for collecting,
                  assembling, decompressing and later analyzing the
                  data fragments received from the telescope. The work
                  is done in JAVA programming language for simplicity,
                  portability, reliability and a distributed
                  computing. Furthermore, JAVA is
                  object-oriented. Object-oriented programming
                  provides greater flexibility, modularity and
                  reusability. Thus it is easy to maintain/extend the
                  on-ground processing tool for different or further
                  compression algorithms or general upgrades. Within
                  this work, we developed a scientific software tool
                  for the processing of the received data from the
                  HSO/PACS instrument. This software tool is designed
                  and tested for PACS data but not limited for
                  astronomical applications. The on-ground processing
                  concept can easily be adapted for other applications
                  (Medical imaging, Telecommunication ...etc). Results
                  from the evaluation of the software with real and
                  virtual test data are given at the end of this
                  report.",
}