Site survey for the Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 509-516

  Walker, Alistair R ^a   Blum, Robert E ^a   Boccas, Maxime ^a   Bustos, Edison ^a   Schwarz, Hugo E ^a   Suntzeff, Nicholas B ^a   Tokovinin, Andrei ^a  

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Author keywords

Site survey; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING;

SITE SURVEYS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037987706     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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