Astronomical Image and Data Analysis

• Main Authors: Starck, J.-L (Author), Murtagh, F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
• Edition: 2.
• Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library,
• Subjects: Physics.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Statistics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

With information and scale as central themes, this comprehensive survey explains how to handle real problems in astronomical data analysis using a modern arsenal of powerful techniques. It treats those innovative methods of image, signal, and data processing that are proving to be both effective and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Applications and Methods
• Filtering
• Deconvolution
• Detection
• Image Compression
• Multichannel Data
• An Entropic Tour of Astronomical Data Analysis
• Astronomical Catalog Analysis
• Multiple Resolution in Data Storage and Retrieval
• Towards the Virtual Observatory
• Appendix A: A trous Wavelet Transform
• Appendix B: Picard Iteration
• Appendix C: Wavelet Transform Using the Fourier Transform
• Appendix D: Derivative Needed for the Minimization
• Appendix E: Generalization of the Derivative Needed for Minimization
• Appendix F: Software and Related Developments.-References
• Index.