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The latest generation of radio astronomy interferometers will conduct all sky surveys with data products consisting of petabytes of spectral line data. Traditional approaches to identifying and parameterising the astrophysical sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 Stefan Westerlund , Christopher Harris

We make a case for "planetary computing" -- infrastructure to handle the ingestion, transformation, analysis and publication of global data products for furthering environmental science and enabling better informed policy-making. We draw on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrick Ferris , Michael Dales , Sadiq Jaffer , Amelia Holcomb , Eleanor Toye Scott , Thomas Swinfield , Alison Eyres , Andrew Balmford , David Coomes , Srinivasan Keshav , Anil Madhavapeddy

Electronically Assisted Astronomy consists in capturing deep sky images with a digital camera coupled to a telescope to display views of celestial objects that would have been invisible through direct observation. This practice generates a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Olivier Parisot , Pierrick Bruneau , Patrik Hitzelberger

We present the MULTIMODAL UNIVERSE, a large-scale multimodal dataset of scientific astronomical data, compiled specifically to facilitate machine learning research. Overall, the MULTIMODAL UNIVERSE contains hundreds of millions of…

Clouds classification is a great challenge in meteorological research. The different types of clouds, currently known and present in our skies, can produce radioactive effects that impact on the variation of atmospheric conditions, with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Mario Manzo , Simone Pellino

Recent advances in Computer Vision and Deep Learning have enabled astonishing results in a variety of fields and applications. Motivated by this success, the SkyCam Dataset aims to enable image-based Deep Learning solutions for short-term,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Evangelos Ntavelis , Jan Remund , Philipp Schmid

The new NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is designed with a serviceoriented architecture (SOA) that consists of multiple customized Apache Solr search engine instances plus a collection of microservices, containerized using Docker, and…

We present results from the first geological field tests of the `Cyborg Astrobiologist', which is a wearable computer and video camcorder system that we are using to test and train a computer-vision system towards having some of the…

This document aims at reviewing the different types of clustering algorithms and substructures detection techniques in order to study the spatial and kinematic clustering of stars and detect the gas components in molecular clouds. It is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 I. Joncour , A. Buckner , P. Khalaj , E. Moraux , F. Motte

Cloud and cloud shadow masking is a crucial preprocessing step in hyperspectral satellite imaging, enabling the extraction of high-quality, analysis-ready data. This study evaluates various machine learning approaches, including gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mazen Ali , António Pereira , Fabio Gentile , Aser Cortines , Sam Mugel , Román Orús , Stelios P. Neophytides , Michalis Mavrovouniotis

Modern scientific data mainly consist of huge datasets gathered by a very large number of techniques and stored in very diversified and often incompatible data repositories. More in general, in the e-science environment, it is considered as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-20 M. Brescia , G. Longo , F. Pasian

We introduce Radar DataTree, the first dataset-level framework that extends the WMO FM-301 standard from individual radar volume scans to time-resolved, analysis-ready archives. Weather radar data are among the most scientifically valuable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Alfonso Ladino-Rincon , Stephen W. Nesbitt

The Astronomy Open Science Competence Centre Pilot (Astro-CC) is an ESCAPE-cluster related project meant to enable the astronomy research communities to accelerate their use of Open Science by supporting the implementation of FAIR…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Marco Molinaro , Mark Allen , Joachim Wambsganns , Enrique Solano , Baptiste Cecconi , Markus Demleitner , André Schaaff , Hendrik Heinl , Sara Bertocco

Cloud detection is an important preprocessing step for the precise application of optical satellite imagery. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based cloud detection method named multi-scale convolutional feature fusion (MSCFF) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhiwei Li , Huanfeng Shen , Qing Cheng , Yuhao Liu , Shucheng You , Zongyi He

All sciences, including astronomy, are now entering the era of information abundance. The exponentially increasing volume and complexity of modern data sets promises to transform the scientific practice, but also poses a number of common…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski

Astronomy produces extremely large data sets from ground-based telescopes, space missions, and simulation. The volume and complexity of these rich data sets require new approaches and advanced tools to understand the information contained…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-25 Demitri Muna , Eric Huff

Cloud computing offers the potential to help scientists to process massive number of computing resources often required in machine learning application such as computer vision problems. This proposal would like to show that which benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Yu Zhou

We propose a new method for solving an important problem of astronomy that arises in observations with ultrahigh-angular-resolution interferometers. This method is based on the application of the theory of artificial neural networks. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Alexander Shatskiy , Ivan Evgeniev

Data centres in contemporary times are essential as the supply of data increases. Data centres are areas where computing systems are concentrated for facilitating data processing, transfer and storage. At present traditional data centres…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Sheridan Gomes , Adel N. Toosi , Barrett Ens

Numerical methods play an ever more important role in astrophysics. This is especially true in theoretical works, but of course, even in purely observational projects, data analysis without massive use of computational methods has become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-18 Volker Springel