Observational Astronomy and data analysis : New observational techniques and analysis tools for wide field CCD surveys and high resolution astrometry

ISBN-13: 9783639139242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 412 str.

Octavi Fors

Opis

Data analysis is crucial in getting the best outcomefrom an astronomical observation. It is cheaper toinvest in data analysis than in new expensivetelescopes, space missions, and instrumentation.That, of course is a false dilemma, but it is alsotrue that often not enough effort is paid to dataanalysis compared to other disciplines.This book tries to fill in this gap with showing aseries of a new data reduction algorithms andobservational techniques in Astronomy. Among them,image deconvolution in wide-field images, new starcentering algorithms, and new CCD acquisitiontechniques such as fast-drift scanning appliedto lunar occultations and speckle interferometry.

O autorze

Octavi Fors received the Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University
of Barcelona in 2006 and the M.S. in Remote Sensing from the
Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia in 1999.
His research topics are high-resolution Astronomy by
means of lunar occultations and speckle interferometry,
image deconvolution, and image fusion applied to
Remote Sensing.