ESA Science & Technology - ESA Survey Missions and Global Processing

Publication date: 02 May 1999

Authors: O'Mullane, W., et al.

Journal: ADASS 99
Issue: 1
Page: 1-4
Year: 1999

Two European survey missions are featured in the current ESA science program: Planck, a Cosmic Background Radiation mission, and GAIA, an astrometric mission. Both missions require global iterative processing over the spacecraft data in the spatial and time domains. The large data volumes and complex data structures involved demand novel analysis methods.