Running PILOT: Operational challenges and plans for an Antarctic

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7016, Issue , 2008, Pages

  McGrath, Andrew ^a   Saunders, Will ^a   Gillingham, Peter ^a   Ward, David ^a   Storey, John ^b   Lawrence, Jon ^b   Haynes, Roger ^a  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Observatory logistics; Telescope operations

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PLATEAU; ANTARCTICA; LOGISTICS CHAINS; LOW TEMPERATURES; OPERATIONAL ASPECTS; OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES; OPERATIONAL PLAN; OPTICAL OBSERVATORIES; POLAR ENVIRONMENTS; REMOTE OBSERVING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TELESCOPE OPERATIONS;

DATA TRANSFER; LOGISTICS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 73449103255     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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