Project description

Astronomy produces great masses of distributed and heterogeneous data : files of the ground and space observatories, catalogues and numerical cartography of the sky, articles in the electronic newspapers. The Virtual Observatory projects aim at allowing an optimal scientific use of this information, but many technological bolts must be surmounted. The Masses project of Data in Astronomy (MDA) proposes collaboration between astronomy and IT laboratories in this context. It comprises three aspects:
  • (a) identification of the common problems, the installation of collaborations and actions for the diffusion of the results;
  • (b) a close cooperation to propose solutions, in particular in the fields of the knowledge bases, hyperspectral image reduction, distributed parallel calculations, distributed data storage, visualization of spherical data;
  • (c) the organization of meetings IT laboratories/laboratories of astronomy on technical topics of common interest
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    Members :

  • Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), ·
  • Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Géodynamique et Astrométrie (CERGA, Grasse), ·
  • Centre d’Etudes Spatiales des Rayonnements (CESR, Toulouse), ·
  • Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP),·
  • Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), ·
  • Laboratoire lORrain d'Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA, Nancy),·
  • Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Image, de l'Informatique et de la Télédétection (LSIIT, Strasbourg),·
  • Observatoire de Paris .


    • Project MDA was adopted by the Scientific Council of the Action Concertative Incitative Masses de Données (MD) of the Ministry for Research and Technology, within the framework of the call to projects 2003.

    Thematic workshops organised in the context of the project :
    Multispectral images workshop, tuesday 15 March 2005
    Grid workshop, tuesday 7 June 2005
    Ontologies workshop, tuesday 25 October 2005

    Project coordinator : Françoise Genova (CDS)

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    Contacts :

    CDS
    Françoise Genova
    François Bonnarel
    Sébastien Derriere
    Soisick Lesteven
    André Schaaff
    Jean Julien Claudon     		CERGA
    Albert Bijaoui
    Christophe Benoit
    Eric Slézak     		CESR
    Jean-Philippe Bernard
    Adam Walters     		IAP
    Emmanuel Bertin
    François Bouchet
    Yannick Mellier
    IRIT
    Josiane Mothe
    Nathalie Hernandez     		LORIA
    Amedeo Napoli
    Yannick Toussaint
    Huaizhong Kou     		LSIIT
    Christophe Collet
    Romaric David
    Stéphane Genaud
    Mireille Louys
    Catherine Mongenet     		OBSPM
    Marie-Lise Dubernet
    Francoise Combes
    Marguerite Cornille
    Daniel Egret
    Nicolas Moreau
    Evelyne Roueff
    Sylvie Sahal-Brechot
    Chantal Stehle
    Lydia Tchang-brillet
    Claude Zeippen
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