An architecture for access to a compute intensive image mosaic service in the NVO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4846, Issue , 2002, Pages 91-102

  Berriman, G Bruce ^a   Curkendall, David ^b   Good, John ^a   Jacob, Joseph ^b   Katz, Daniel S ^b   Kong, Mihseh ^a   Monkewitz, Serge ^a   Moore, Reagan ^d   Prince, Thomas ^c   Williams, Roy ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Astronomical image mosaics; Data access; Image reprojection; Request management

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 0038302765     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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