Some pattern recognition challenges in data-intensive astronomy

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 856-863

  Djorgovski, S G ^a   Donalek, C ^a   Mahabal, A ^a   Williams, R ^a   Drake, A J ^a   Graham, M J ^a   Glikman, E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA-INTENSIVE FIELDS; DIGITAL SKY SURVEYS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 34047231507     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.1064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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