Web Mapping Services Technology and Astronomical Data
Abstract
Web Mapping Services (WMS) provide a standard interface for querying and accessing image layers from mapping servers. The newly released Sky in Google Earth and Google Maps allow imaging data to be displayed from a WMS compliant server. Here we show our initial efforts to integrate astronomical data into these tools. We chose GALEX and DSS data as our initial datasets as part of a wider effort on data visualization of all Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (MAST) data.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2007
- Bibcode:
- 2007AAS...211.4728V