Dr. Alasdair Allan Profile

Dr. Alasdair Allan

Senior Research Fellow at Univ of Exeter

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Proceedings Article | 29 June 2006 Paper

Networking observers and observatories with remote telescope markup language

Frederic Hessman, Georg Tuparev, Alasdair Allan

Proceedings Volume 6270, 62700L (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671534

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Observatories, Device simulation, Robotics, Astronomy, Space telescopes, Imaging spectroscopy, Spectroscopes, Astronomical telescopes, Optical filters

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Proceedings Article | 29 June 2006 Paper

Operating a heterogeneous telescope network

Alasdair Allan, Karsten Bischoff, Martin Burgdorf, Brad Cavanagh, Damien Christian, Neil Clay, Rob Dickens, Frossie Economou, Mehri Fadavi, Stephen Frazer, Thomas Granzer, Sandy Grosvenor, Frederic Hessman, Tim Jenness, Anuradha Koratkar, Matthew Lehner, Chris Mottram, Tim Naylor, Eric Saunders, Nikolaos Solomos, Iain Steele, Georg Tuparev, W. Thomas Vestrand, Robert White, Sarah Yost

Proceedings Volume 6270, 62700H (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671247

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Robotics, Observatories, Astronomical telescopes, Space telescopes, Prototyping, Standards development, Astronomy, Physics, Astrophysics

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

Interconnecting astronomical networks: evolving from single networks to meta-networks

R. White, A. Allan, S. Evans, W. Vestrand, J. Wren, P. Wozniak

Proceedings Volume 6274, 627409 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671686

KEYWORDS: Astronomy, Telescopes, Telecommunications, Astronomical telescopes, Data communications, Observatories, Robotics, Computer programming, Software development, Received signal strength

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 2006 Paper

What do telescopes, databases, and compute clusters have in common?

A. Allan, A. Adamson, B. Cavanagh, F. Economou, S. Fraser, T. Jenness, C. Mottram, T. Naylor, E. Saunders, I. Steele, W. Vestrand, R. White, P. Wozniak

Proceedings Volume 6274, 627408 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671360

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Prototyping, Astronomy, Planets, Astronomical telescopes, Robotics, Databases, Computer architecture, Network architectures, Astrophysics

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Proceedings Article | 15 September 2004 Paper

eSTAR: intelligent observing and rapid responses

Alasdair Allan, Tim Naylor, Iain Steele, Tim Jenness, Brad Cavanagh, Frossie Economou, Eric Saunders, Andy Adamson, Jason Etherton, Chris Mottram

Proceedings Volume 5496, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550433

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Databases, Astronomy, Robotics, Stars, Web services, Space telescopes, Data archive systems, Data modeling, Astrophysics

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Proceedings Article | 27 November 2002 Paper

eSTAR: a distributed telescope network

Iain Steele, Tim Naylor, Alisdair Allan, Jason Etherton, C Mottram

Proceedings Volume 4845, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.456601

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Astronomy, Robotics, Databases, Astronomical telescopes, Space telescopes, Astrophysics, Prototyping, Control systems, Data archive systems

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