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Calibration Data

Synonyms: CAL/VAL Data

1 Definition

Data required to calibrate instrument science data, engineering data, and spacecraft data, including pre-flight and in-flight measurements, calibration coefficients, and ground truth.

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CAL/VAL data can be considered as a digital data object (object composed of a set of bit sequences) part of a content information, related to other digital objects (i.e. primary data) through context information (the information that documents the relationships of the content information to its environment; this includes why the content Information was created and how it relates to other content information objects) or as a specialized type of provenance and representation information related to a primary digital data object.

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