Networking observers and observatories with Remote Telescope Markup Language

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6270, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hessman, Frederic V ^a   Tuparev, Georg ^b   Allan, Alasdair ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Tuparev Technologies Inc   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intelligent agents; Remote observing; Robotic; Service observations; Simulators; Software; Telescope networks; Virtual Observatory; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SIMULATORS;

REMOTE OBSERVING; SERVICE OBSERVATIONS; TELESCOPE NETWORKS; VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY;

XML;

EID: 33749366014     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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