Elixir - How to handle 2 trillion pixels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4844, Issue , 2002, Pages 343-350

  Magnier, Eugene A ^a   Cuillandre, Jean Charles ^a  

^a CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TELESCOPES;

DATA VALIDATION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0037547161     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460745     Document Type: Conference Paper

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