The Kepler end-to-end model: Creating high-fidelity simulations to test Kepler ground processing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7738, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bryson, Stephen T ^a   Jenkins, Jon M ^a   Peters, Dan J ^b   Tenenbaum, Peter P ^a   Klaus, Todd C ^a   Gunter, Jay P ^a   Cote, Miles T ^a   Caldwell, Douglas A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Kepler; pixel simulation

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; EARTH-LIKE PLANETS; GROUND PROCESSING; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS; KEPLER; KEPLER MISSION; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIMULATED DATA;

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA REDUCTION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAINTAINABILITY; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIXELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STARS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77956167141     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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