Sorry for the sloppy reply but here I go:
Simply put, the temperature should be read as a value of resistance, so it's going to be a hard number to find. It might be that 473 or whatever that raw value is, is your resistance in Ohms. Then you have to put that number through some long equations, convert Ohms to Kelvin, then Kelvin to Fahrenheit or Celsius.
The distance should be the easy variable to find. Usually distance sensors don't output anything complex. However like you said earlier, I was trying to decode the binary also, and I didn't see anything useful when I get the dec values from each 4bit block. I also tried 8bit blocks, 16bit blocks, nothing looked like it made sense. I can see there is a header byte, and a footer byte, but everything in-between doesn't make any sense. Do you happen to know what the Make / Model is of that sensor is that is reading the distance? There might be some information online about how to decode that specific sensor??
Best of luck to you keep me updated! I'm really confused about this, and would love to know more!