This data set contains all of of the calibrated Saturn tour data for the INCA sensor of the MIMI instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft for the Cassini mission. INCA stands for Imaging Neutral Camera.

 
Citation Vandegriff J., Kusterer M.B., Mafi J., CO-S-MIMI-4-INCA-CALIB-V1.0, CASSINI S MIMI INCA SENSOR CALIBRATED DATA V1.0NASA Planetary Data System, 2018.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.17189/1519607
Data Set Abstract The Ion and Neutral Camera (INCA) obtains remote images of the global distribution of energetic ions for energies from 7 keV/nucleon to 8 MeV/nucleon, discriminated according to energy and mass species (oxygen and hydrogen). To obtain the images, INCA measures the arrival directions, energy and mass species of Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENA's) using the relatively new technique of ENA imaging. INCA also can be commanded to obtain very high sensitivity ion measurements, providing the angular, energy and species distributions of in-situ O and H ions. The Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument(MIMI) Imaging Neutral Camera (INCA) calibrated data set includes all image data collected from the MIMI Data Processing Unit during the Saturn tour. The original data has been decommutated, decoded, calibrated and further processed by software at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). The calibrated image data is provided in three forms: an averaged form where the original image N x N pixel images pixels intensity are averaged to a single value for one species and time-of-flight (TOF) combination, browse images which display rows and columns of images for one species and TOF combination, and movies which display averaged ENA image skymaps. Calibration of INCA data has been described fully in the Cassini/MIMI Data User Guide. This data set should be among the first used by a user of any of the MIMI INCA archive as it will lead one to information required to search for more detailed or highly specialized features in the original data.
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    Mission Information CASSINI-HUYGENS
    Data Set Information CO-S-MIMI-4-INCA-CALIB-V1.0
    Instrument Host Information CO
    Instrument Information MIMI
    Target Information SATURN