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Introduction to Madagascar

To begin, let's talk about the core principles of Madagascar, and the RSF file format.

**Figure 1:** The hierarchy of Madagascar. Fundamentally, everything builds off of the RSF file format. As you go up the chain the complexity level may increase, but the capabilities of the processing package increase as well.
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2011-11-03