Sharing code and support between heterogeneous telescopes: The UKIRT and JCMT joint software projects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4844, Issue , 2002, Pages 321-330

  Economou, Frossie ^a   Jenness, Tim ^a   Rees, Nick P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

JCMT; Software development; UKIRT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA REDUCTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

UPGRADABILITY;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038643228     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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