Category Archives: image mosaics

The Montage Mosaic Engine and Visualization

Posted on May 22, 2017 by astrocompute

Those of you who have used Montage probably know it as a toolkit for processing images to create mosaics. It is, however, finding applicability in the visualization of images, as described in “The Application of Montage to the Visualization of … Continue reading →

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Version 4.0 of the Montage Image Mosaic Engine Released: Data Cubes and more.

Posted on October 24, 2015 by astrocompute

Version 4.0 is a major upgrade of Montage, released with a BSD 3-clause license. The distribution is available from Git Hub at https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage and from the Montage web page at http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/download.html. The release supports aggregation of of data stored as … Continue reading →

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Tools For Astronomical Big Data

Posted on March 12, 2015 by astrocompute

This week, I attended the Tools for Astronomical Big Data Workshop, held in Tucson from March 9 -11 and sponsored by NOAO. Over 100 practitioners gathered to “survey the present state of the art in addressing the challenges of conducting … Continue reading →

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The CAVE2 Immersive Visualisation Platform at Monash University

Posted on August 4, 2014 by astrocompute

The availability of massive data sets is driving the development of new large-scale visualization systems. One such is the CAVE2 Immersive Visualisation Platform built at Monash University. Described as a next-generation immersive hybrid 2D and 3D virtual reality environment, this … Continue reading →

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The One-Degree Imager – Portal, Pipeline and Archive (ODI-PPA) User Services

Posted on July 20, 2014 by astrocompute

Last week, I blogged about the ODI archive architecture, based on a talk given by Arvind Gopu at the SPIE Meeting in Montreal, Canada on June 22nd.  This week I will write about the user services layered on top of … Continue reading →

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Creating A Galactic Plane Atlas With Amazon Web Services

Posted on February 13, 2014 by astrocompute

Creating A Galactic Plane Atlas With Amazon Web Services This post is based on a paper by G. Bruce Berriman, Ewa Deelman, John Good, Gideon Juve, Jamie Kinney, Ann Merrihew, and Mats Rynge. It was submitted to an IEEE Special … Continue reading →

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Astroinformatics 2013 – Day Three, December 11 2013

Posted on December 10, 2013 by astrocompute

Day Three  of Astroinformatics 2013, hosted  by CSIRO, is well underway. We are discussing advances in data processing, manipulation and management – crucial topics in modern astronomy. You can see the agenda here, along with a growing list of presentations, … Continue reading →

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From The Front Lines of ADASS – Day 3 Morning

Posted on October 2, 2013 by astrocompute

The morning session on Day 3 was on the topic of emerging technologies. Steve Groom began festivities with a talk on Innovative ways of using database technologies.  He described the techniques that are used at IRSA to ingest data into … Continue reading →

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Does the cloud mean having to rethink software development?

Posted on May 24, 2013 by astrocompute

Marten Mickos recently wrote a guest post on GigaOM titled: “For developers, the cloud means having to rethink everything they know about making software.” Mickos raised some very good points. He listed five ways in which cloud computing will force … Continue reading →

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e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research

Posted on December 17, 2012 by astrocompute

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has just published a special issue entitled: “e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research.”  The issue contains 12 papers that are considered “best in show” at the U. K. e-Science … Continue reading →

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