Chandra data archive operations: Lessons learned

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6270, Issue , 2006, Pages

  McCollough, Michael L ^a   Rots, Arnold H ^a   Winkelman, Sherry L ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chandra; Data Archive; Data Distribution; Data Processing; Observatory Operations; Space Based Observatory; X Ray

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; USER INTERFACES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CHANDRA; DATA ARCHIVE; DATA DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVATORY OPERATIONS; SPACE BASED OBSERVATORY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749365652     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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