• DocumentCode
    1026380
  • Title

    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Drinking from the Fire Hose

  • Author

    Thakar, Ani R.

  • Author_Institution
    Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    9
  • Lastpage
    12
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computing in Science & Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1521-9615
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSE.2008.17
  • Filename
    4418764
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1026380