Data quality assessment database and a World Wide Web interface for the Hubble Space Telescope

Calvin Tullos; Colin R. Cox

doi:10.1117/12.278832

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18 September 1997 Data quality assessment database and a World Wide Web interface for the Hubble Space Telescope

Proceedings Volume 3112, Telescope Control Systems II; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.278832
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Contact scientists for the Hubble Space Telescope examine observation products and report problems and shortcomings in the data. We have developed a database to hold this information and a series of World-Wide Web pages to facilitate reporting directly to this database. Over time, different characteristics of observations have been identified which are essentially signatures of each instrument that cannot be calibrated out. These have been classified as anomalies with which each contact scientist is very familiar. It is part of their task to identify these anomalies and flag them. Depending on the nature and severity of the anomaly, the principal investigator is contacted and the anomaly brought to their attention. To maintain a permanent record and to support others who retrieve data from the archive, we created a database for storing the contact scientists data quality assessments, and a WWW tool to facilitate the assessment process. The tool and database have been in routine use since early December 1996.

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Calvin Tullos and Colin R. Cox "Data quality assessment database and a World Wide Web interface for the Hubble Space Telescope", Proc. SPIE 3112, Telescope Control Systems II, (18 September 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.278832

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