Web-based visualization of very large scientific astronomy imagery

Astronomy and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-53

  Bertin, E ^a,d   Pillay, R ^b   Marmo, C ^c,d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b C2RMF ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

High resolution; HTML5; Scientific data; Visualization; Web application

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DISPLAY DEVICES; ERGONOMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HTML; MOBILE DEVICES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HTML5; PLATFORM INDEPENDENT; REMOTE VISUALIZATION; SCIENTIFIC DATA; WEB APPLICATION; WEB-BASED VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84921443290     PISSN: 22131337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

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