Astronomy and Big Data: A Data Clustering Approach to Identifying Uncertain Galaxy Morphology

Studies in Big Data

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-104

  Edwards, Kieran Jay ^a   Gaber, Mohamed Medhat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85132863166     PISSN: 21976503     EISSN: 21976511     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06599-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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