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60 relations: Adobe Photoshop, Advanced Scientific Data Format, ASCII, Astronomy, Astropy, Backward compatibility, C (programming language), C Sharp (programming language), C++, Card image, Cartesian coordinate system, Celestial coordinate system, Common Data Format, Coordinate system, Cosmic microwave background, Data cube, Data model, Database, Electromagnetic spectrum, European Southern Observatory, European Space Agency, File format, FITS Liberator, Fortran, GIMP, Goddard Space Flight Center, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, HEALPix, Hierarchical Data Format, IDL (programming language), IGOR Pro, Image file formats, ImageJ, Infrared, International Astronomical Union, IrfanView, Java (programming language), Julia (programming language), LabVIEW, Map projection, MATLAB, Metadata, NASA, NetCDF, Open standard, Perl, Perl Data Language, Photometry (optics), Photon, Python (programming language), ..., R (programming language), Relational database, Solarsoft, Space Telescope Science Institute, Starlink Project, Tcl, Vatican City, Wolfram Mathematica, X-ray, XnView. Expand index (10 more) »
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for macOS and Windows.
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Advanced Scientific Data Format
Advanced Scientific Data Format is a proposed replacement to the FITS standard for astronomical images and other astronomical data.
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ASCII
ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
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Astronomy
Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.
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Astropy
Astropy is a collection of software packages written in the Python programming language and designed for use in astronomy.
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Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is a property of a system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially in telecommunications and computing.
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C (programming language)
C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.
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C Sharp (programming language)
C# (/si: ʃɑːrp/) is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.
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C++
C++ ("see plus plus") is a general-purpose programming language.
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Card image
Card image is an archaic term for a character string, usually 80 characters in length, that was, or could be, contained on a single punched card.
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Cartesian coordinate system
A Cartesian coordinate system is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length.
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Celestial coordinate system
In astronomy, a celestial coordinate system is a system for specifying positions of celestial objects: satellites, planets, stars, galaxies, and so on.
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Common Data Format
Common Data Format (CDF) is a library and toolkit that was developed by the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at NASA starting in 1985.
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Coordinate system
In geometry, a coordinate system is a system which uses one or more numbers, or coordinates, to uniquely determine the position of the points or other geometric elements on a manifold such as Euclidean space.
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Cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR) is electromagnetic radiation as a remnant from an early stage of the universe in Big Bang cosmology.
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Data cube
In computer programming contexts, a data cube (or datacube) is a multi-dimensional ("n-D") array of values.
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Data model
A data model (or datamodel) is a set of tables, linked by relationships and is an abstract model that organizes elements of data and standardizes how they relate to one another and to properties of the real world entities.
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Database
A database is an organized collection of data, stored and accessed electronically.
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Electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of frequencies (the spectrum) of electromagnetic radiation and their respective wavelengths and photon energies.
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European Southern Observatory
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a 15-nation intergovernmental research organization for ground-based astronomy.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA; Agence spatiale européenne, ASE; Europäische Weltraumorganisation) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space.
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File format
A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.
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FITS Liberator
The ESA/ESO/NASA FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Liberator is a free software program for processing and editing astronomical science data in the FITS format to reproduce images of the universe.
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Fortran
Fortran (formerly FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
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GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
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Goddard Space Flight Center
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.
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Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a research institute which carries out a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science education.
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HEALPix
HEALPix (sometimes written as Healpix), an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelisation of a 2-sphere, is an algorithm for pixelisation of the 2-sphere, and the associated class of map projections.
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Hierarchical Data Format
Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is a set of file formats (HDF4, HDF5) designed to store and organize large amounts of data.
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IDL (programming language)
IDL, short for Interactive Data Language, is a programming language used for data analysis.
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IGOR Pro
IGOR Pro is a scientific data analysis software, numerical computing environment and programming language that runs on Windows or Mac operating systems.
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Image file formats
Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images.
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ImageJ
ImageJ is a public domain, Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health.
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Infrared
Infrared radiation (IR) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore generally invisible to the human eye (although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nm from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain conditions). It is sometimes called infrared light.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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IrfanView
IrfanView is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows.
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Java (programming language)
Java is a general-purpose computer-programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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Julia (programming language)
Julia is a high-level dynamic programming language designed to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science, without the typical need of separate compilation to be fast, while also being effective for general-purpose programming, web use or as a specification language.
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LabVIEW
Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments.
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Map projection
A map projection is a systematic transformation of the latitudes and longitudes of locations from the surface of a sphere or an ellipsoid into locations on a plane.
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MATLAB
MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks.
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Metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data".
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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NetCDF
NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
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Open standard
An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process).
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Perl
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages, Perl 5 and Perl 6.
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Perl Data Language
Perl Data Language (abbreviated PDL) is a set of free software array programming extensions to the Perl programming language.
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Photometry (optics)
Photometry is the science of the measurement of light, in terms of its perceived brightness to the human eye.
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Photon
The photon is a type of elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force (even when static via virtual particles).
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Python (programming language)
Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.
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R (programming language)
R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that is supported by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
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Relational database
A relational database is a digital database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970.
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Solarsoft
Solarsoft is a collaborative software development system created at Lockheed-Martin to support solar data analysis and spacecraft operation activities.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST; in orbit since 1990) and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST; scheduled to be launched in March 2021).
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Starlink Project
The Starlink Project, referred to by users as Starlink and by developers as simply The Project, was a UK astronomical computing project which supplied general-purpose data reduction software.
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Tcl
Tcl (pronounced "tickle" or tee cee ell) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
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Vatican City
Vatican City (Città del Vaticano; Civitas Vaticana), officially the Vatican City State or the State of Vatican City (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is an independent state located within the city of Rome.
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Wolfram Mathematica
Wolfram Mathematica (usually termed Mathematica) is a modern technical computing system spanning most areas of technical computing — including neural networks, machine learning, image processing, geometry, data science, visualizations, and others.
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X-ray
X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.
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XnView
XnView is an image organizer and general-purpose file manager used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing raster images, as well as general purpose file management.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS
