Aspects of concurrent design during the VISTA IR Camera detailed design phase

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5497, Issue , 2004, Pages 51-61

  Caldwell, Martin ^a   Whalley, Martin ^a   Woodhouse, Guy ^a   Edeson, Ruben ^a   Burke, Kevin ^a   Lucas, John ^a   Shaughnessy, Bryan ^a   Richards, Tony ^a   Ward, Kim ^a   Dalton, Gavin ^a   Leclerc, Melanie ^b   Gallie, Angus ^b   Clark, Paul ^c  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infrared camera; Instrumentation; VISTA; Wide field

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES;

INFRARED CAMERA; INSTRUMENTATION; VISTA; WIDE-FIELD;

CAMERAS;

EID: 19944429476     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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