Observing control and data reduction at the UKIRT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3349, Issue , 1998, Pages 184-194

  Bridger, Alan ^a   Economou, Frossie ^b   Wright, Gillian S ^a   Currie, Malcolm J ^a  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Observatory control system; Observing preparation; Pipeline data reduction; Queue scheduling

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIPE LININGS; PIPELINES; QUEUEING THEORY; SCHEDULING; STATISTICS; TELESCOPES;

OBSERVATORY CONTROL SYSTEM; OBSERVING PREPARATION; PIPELINE DATA REDUCTION; QUEUE-SCHEDULING; REDUCTION SYSTEMS; REMOTE OBSERVATION; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES; TIME REDUCTION; UNITED KINGDOM (UK);

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 0013174993     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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