Representations of world coordinates in FITS

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 395, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1061-1075

  Greisen, E W ^a   Calabretta, M R ^b  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Astronomical data bases: miscellaneous; Methods: data analysis; Techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPACE FLIGHT;

FLEXIBLE IMAGE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (FITS);

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0036897431     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021326     Document Type: Article

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