Title :
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Drinking from the Fire Hose
Author_Institution :
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore
Abstract :
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey science archive represents a thousand-fold increase in the total amount of data that astronomers have collected to date. The pioneering instrumentation technology that made this possible is matched by groundbreaking tools that let anyone in the world access terabytes of SDSS data online.
Keywords :
astronomical catalogues; astronomical surveys; astronomy computing; information retrieval; SDSS data online; Sloan Digital Sky Survey; date collection; fire hose; science archive; Data engineering; Data mining; Fires; Hoses; Image databases; Instruments; Mirrors; Pipelines; Space technology; Telescopes; SDSS; Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive; astronomy; database management systems; large-scale databases;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2008.17
