VISTA data flow system: Overview

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5493, Issue , 2004, Pages 401-410

  Emerson, Jim ^a   Irwin, Mike ^b   Lewis, Jim ^b   Hodgkin, Simon ^b   Evans, Dafydd ^b   Bunclark, Peter ^b   McMahon, Richard ^b   Hambly, Nigel ^c   Mann, Robert ^c,d   Bond, Ian ^c   Sutorius, Eckhard ^c   Read, Michael ^c   Williams, Peredur ^c   Lawrence, Andrew ^c   Stewart, Malcolm ^e  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d National e Science Centre   (United Kingdom)

^e UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astronomical surveys; Data quality control; Pipeline; Science archives; VDFS; VISTA; WFCAM

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; DATA REDUCTION; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; SURVEYS;

ASTRONOMICAL SURVEYS; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; PIXELS; SCIENCE ARCHIVES;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 10444235655     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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