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This paper describes the MegaPipe image processing pipeline at the Canadian Astronomical Data Centre. The pipeline combines multiple images from the MegaCam mosaic camera on CFHT and combines them into a single output image. MegaPipe takes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen. D. J. Gwyn

This paper describes the image stacks and catalogs of the CFHT Legacy Survey produced using using the MegaPipe data pipeline at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre. The Legacy Survey is divided into to two parts: The Deep Survey consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Stephen D. J. Gwyn

Astronomical photometry is the science of measuring the flux of a celestial object. Since its introduction, the CCD has been the principle method of measuring flux to calculate the apparent magnitude of an object. Each CCD image taken must…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Paul Doyle

PHOTOMETRYPIPELINE (PP) is an automated pipeline that produces calibrated photometry from imaging data through image registration, aperture photometry, photometric calibration, and target identification with only minimal human interaction.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-06 Michael Mommert

This paper introduces an effective processing framework nominated ICP (Image Cloud Processing) to powerfully cope with the data explosion in image processing field. While most previous researches focus on optimizing the image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Le Dong , Zhiyu Lin , Yan Liang , Ling He , Ning Zhang , Qi Chen , Xiaochun Cao , Ebroul lzquierdo

We report on the development of SuperCam, a 64 pixel, superheterodyne camera designed for operation in the astrophysically important 870 micron atmospheric window. SuperCam will be used to answer fundamental questions about the physics and…

We have designed and implemented a novel way to process wide-field astronomical data within a distributed environment of hardware resources and humanpower. The system is characterized by integration of archiving, calibration, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 J. P. McFarland , G. Verdoes-Kleijn , G. Sikkema , E. M. Helmich , D. R. Boxhoorn , E. A. Valentijn

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging combines multiple images with different exposure times into a single high-quality image. The image signal processing pipeline (ISP) is a core component in digital cameras to perform these operations. It…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Prashant Chaudhari , Franziska Schirrmacher , Andreas Maier , Christian Riess , Thomas Köhler

The Pan-STARRS Data Processing System is responsible for the steps needed to downloaded, archive, and process all images obtained by the Pan-STARRS telescopes, including real-time detection of transient sources such as supernovae and moving…

We present the first fully automated pipeline for making images from the interferometric data obtained from the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) called CAsa Pipeline-cum-Toolkit for Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Ruta Kale , Ishwara-Chandra C. H.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on both nightly and yearly cadences to generate transient…

We report here on a project that has developed a practical approach to processing all-sky image collections on cloud platforms, using as an exemplar application the creation of three-color Hierarchical Progressive Survey (HiPS) maps of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 G. Bruce Berriman , John C. Good

The US National Park Service (NPS) assesses the night sky quality over parks by capturing a series of overlapping images to obtain a mosaic view of the entire night sky. The NPS Night Skies Program has integrated a sequence of scripts and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Li-Wei Hung , Davyd Betchkal , Sharolyn J. Anderson , Damon Joyce

In this paper, we describe the optical imaging data processing pipeline developed for the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) instrument. The HSC Pipeline builds on the prototype pipeline being developed by the Large Synoptic Survey…

The 24 micron array on board the Spitzer Space Telescope is one of three arrays in the Multi-band Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument. It provides 5.3 x 5.3 arcmin images at a scale of ~2.5 arcsec per pixel corresponding to…

Old master drawings were mostly created step by step in several layers using different materials. To art historians and restorers, examination of these layers brings various insights into the artistic work process and helps to answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 AmirAbbas Davari , Nikolaos Sakaltras , Armin Haeberle , Sulaiman Vesal , Vincent Christlein , Andreas Maier , Christian Riess

We have written an automatic image processing pipeline for the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) program. The pipeline, known as Apsis, supports the different cameras available on the ACS instrument and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Blakeslee , K. R. Anderson , G. R. Meurer , N. Benitez , D. Magee

We introduce a pipeline that performs rapid image subtraction and source selection to detect transients, with a focus on identifying gravitational wave optical counterparts using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). In this work, we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Shenming Fu , Thomas Matheson , Aaron Meisner , Yuanyuan Zhang , Sebastián Vicencio , Destry Saul

The growing volume of digital images necessitates advanced systems for efficient categorization and retrieval, presenting a significant challenge in database management and information retrieval. This paper introduces PICS (Pipeline for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Grant Rosario , David Noever
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