| Description: If true, indicates that the companding was or should be done "early" in the onboard processing chain, for instruments where there is an option. For MSL, early processing is where the image is prepared for use by any client, including those on board, such as rotation, bad pixels, flat field, early scaling, and camera model production. Contrast that with late processing, which includes compression and telemetry generation, and processing for thumbnails, subframes, histograms, and row/column sums. |