The JCMT observatory control system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 283-293

  Rees, Nick ^a   Economou, Frossie ^a   Jenness, Tim ^a   Kackley, Russell ^a   Walther, Craig ^a   Dent, Bill ^b   Folger, Martin ^b   Gao, Xiaofeng ^b   Kelly, Dennis ^b   Lightfoot, John ^b   Pain, Ian ^b   Hovey, Gary ^c   Redman, Russell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Instrument control; Observatory control; Real time distributed computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; USER INTERFACES; XML;

INSTRUMENT CONTROL; JAMES CLERK MAXWELL TELESCOPE; OBSERVATORY CONTROL SYSTEM; REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036983077     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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