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Microsoft TerraServer displays aerial, satellite, and to-pographic images of the earth in a SQL database available via the Internet. It is one of the most popular online at-lases, presenting seventeen terabytes of image data from the United…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Tom Barclay , Jim Gray

The SkyServer provides Internet access to the public Sloan Digi-tal Sky Survey (SDSS) data for both astronomers and for science education. This paper describes the SkyServer goals and archi-tecture. It also describes our experience…

Large sky surveys are providing a huge amount of information for studies of the interstellar medium, the galactic structure or the cosmic web. Setting into a common frame information coming from different wavelengths, over large fields of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Marcelo Armengot , Nestor Sanchez , Javier Lopez-Santiago , Ana Ines Gomez de Castro

The Montage Image Mosaic Engine, first released in 2002, has found applicability across the electromagnetic spectrum to support data processing and visualization. This broad applicability has come about through its design as an Open Source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 G. Bruce Berriman , John C. Good , Ian Heywood , R. Moseley

OdoViz is a reactive web-based tool for 3D visualization and processing of autonomous vehicle datasets designed to support common tasks in visual place recognition research. The system includes functionality for loading, inspecting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Saravanabalagi Ramachandran , John McDonald

Occluded and long-range objects are ubiquitous and challenging for 3D object detection. Point cloud sequence data provide unique opportunities to improve such cases, as an occluded or distant object can be observed from different viewpoints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yingwei Li , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Chenxi Liu , Dragomir Anguelov

Binospec is a high-throughput, 370 to 1000 nm, imaging spectrograph that addresses two adjacent 8' by 15' fields of view. Binospec was commissioned in late 2017 at the f/5 focus of the 6.5m MMT and is now available to all MMT observers.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Jan Kansky , Igor Chilingarian , Daniel Fabricant , Anne Matthews , Sean Moran , Martin Paegert , J. Duane Gibson , Dallan Porter , John Roll

Accurate and efficient label of aerial images is essential for informed decision-making and resource allocation, whether in identifying crop types or delineating land-use patterns. The development of a comprehensive toolbox for manipulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Ricard Durall , Laura Montilla , Esteban Durall

With the rapid increase in the number of Anthropogenic Space Objects (ASOs), Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is facing significant congestion, thereby posing challenges to space operators and risking the viability of the space environment for varied…

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…

Multi-modal perception is essential for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, as it enables a comprehensive understanding of the UAVs' surrounding environment. However, most existing multi-modal UAV datasets are primarily biased toward…

Visualizing and navigating through large astronomy images from a remote location with current astronomy display tools can be a frustrating experience in terms of speed and ergonomics, especially on mobile devices. In this paper, we present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Emmanuel Bertin , Ruven Pillay , Chiara Marmo

Satellite-based remote sensing has revolutionised the way we address global challenges. Huge quantities of Earth Observation (EO) data are generated by satellite sensors daily, but processing these large datasets for use in ML pipelines is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Matthew J Allen , Francisco Dorr , Joseph Alejandro Gallego Mejia , Laura Martínez-Ferrer , Anna Jungbluth , Freddie Kalaitzis , Raúl Ramos-Pollán

The analysis and an efficient scientific exploration of the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS) represents a major technical challenge. The input data set consists of 3 Terabytes of pixel information, and contains a few billion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. de Carvalho , S. C. Odewahn , R. R. Gal , J. Roden , P. Stolorz , A. Gray

We outline our first steps towards marrying two new and emerging technologies; the Virtual Observatory (e.g, AstroGrid) and the computational grid. We discuss the construction of VOTechBroker, which is a modular software tool designed to…

In time-domain astronomy, STLF (Short-Timescale and Large Field-of-view) sky survey is the latest way of sky observation. Compared to traditional sky survey who can only find astronomical phenomena, STLF sky survey can even reveal how short…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Chen Yang , Xiaofeng Meng , Zhihui Du , JiaMing Qiu , Kenan Liang , Yongjie Du , Zhiqiang Duan , Xiaobin Ma , Zhijian Fang

In this paper, we describe a modular data acquisition system developed as the foundation of a cosmic ray detector network. Each detector setup (henceforth referred as a station) is composed of an independent hardware device that can be…

Obtaining high performance in IO intensive applications requires systems that support reliable fast transfer, data replication, and caching. In this paper we present an architecture designed for supporting IO intensive applications in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-06-28 Dacian Tudor , Florin Pop , Valentin Cristea , Vladimir Cretu

The lack of open-source tools for hyperspectral data visualization and analysiscreates a demand for new tools. In this paper we present the new PlanetServer,a set of tools comprising a web Geographic Information System (GIS) and arecently…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 R. Marco Figuera , B. Pham Huu , A. P. Rossi , M. Minin , J. Flahaut , A. Halder

The SkyServer is an Internet portal to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Catalog Archive Server. From 2001 to 2006, there were a million visitors in 3 million sessions generating 170 million Web hits, 16 million ad-hoc SQL queries, and 62…