Investigate patch file differences

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Issue RCAL-892 was created on JIRA by Brett Graham:

Currently the pipeline uses the following "patches" file for determining the skycell:

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This file contains a single "patches" structured array:

└─patches (NDArrayType): shape=(5580000,), dtype=void1760

a proposed new file:

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contains a different structure:

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├─16 (NDArrayType): shape=(2403,), dtype=void1920
├─17 (NDArrayType): shape=(2403,), dtype=void1920
├─18 (NDArrayType): shape=(2403,), dtype=void1920
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that doesn't look to be compatible with the way that pipeline opens the "patches" file:

romancal/romancal/patch_match/patch_match.py

Line 42 in b24429c

PATCH_TABLE = af.tree["patches"].copy()

Investigate the differences, what would be required to either:

• regenerate the file in a compatible format
• update the pipeline for the new formt