Data-mining a large digital sky survey: From the challenges to the scientific results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3164, Issue , 1997, Pages 98-109

  Djorgovski, S G ^a   De Carvalho, R R ^a   Odewahn, S C ^a   Gal, R R ^a   Roden, J ^a   Stolorz, P ^a   Gray, A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering analysis; Data mining; Sky surveys; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASTRONOMY; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 0031289652     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.292750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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