TALON - The telescope alert operation network system: Intelligent linking of distributed autonomous robotic telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 302-312

  White, R R ^a   Wren, J ^a   Davis, H ^a   Galassi, M ^a   Starr, D ^a   Vestrand, W T ^a   Wozniak, P ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Distributed sensor; Network; Optical transient; Robotic telescope; Servers

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; OPTICAL SENSORS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; NETWORK; OPTICAL TRANSIENT; ROBOTIC TELESCOPE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 9944255352     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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