Ground Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy

The field of ground based gamma-ray astronomy has seen rapid growth over the past thirty years with the development of the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique to search for Very High Energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma radiation. This growth continues with the construction of four third generation telescope systems in Namibia, Australia, La Palma and the USA. These systems will search for VHE gamma radiation from such objects as AGN, SNRs, microquasars, dark matter and the galactic centre.