Richard L. White

The FIRST Survey
The VLA FIRST Survey is the radio equivalent of the Palomar Sky Survey, mapping 10,000 square degrees of the sky to a flux density limit of 1 mJy at 20 cm wavelength with 5" resolution and 1" positions.

PyRAF
PyRAF is a new command language for IRAF based on the Python scripting language. It is useful both for interactive data analysis and for writing analysis scripts.

Image Compression
My hcompress image compression software was used for the CD-ROM distribution of the Digitized Sky Survey, the RealSky, and many other projects. Continuing work includes a progressive image transmission protocol & library using the hcompress compression engine. Here are some examples.

Image Restoration
Developer of image restoration methods used for Hubble Space Telescope data. Co-editor of proceedings of the 1st and 2nd HST image restoration workshops.

Guide Star Catalog-II
Developer of the star-galaxy classification algorithm for GSC-II, a project to construct a new, all-sky catalog of one billion stars and galaxies with colors and proper motions from digitized Schmidt photographic plates. For more information on GSC-II, see the GSC2 home page.

Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys
I am on the instrument development team for the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys, which will be installed on HST during an early 2002 servicing mission by the Space Shuttle. I designed the algorithm being used for on-board compression of the ACS images (described in a Postscript paper published in the proceedings of the March 1998 Kona SPIE meeting.)

Richard L. White, rlw@stsci.edu
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
2001 June 22

	The FIRST Survey The VLA FIRST Survey is the radio equivalent of the Palomar Sky Survey, mapping 10,000 square degrees of the sky to a flux density limit of 1 mJy at 20 cm wavelength with 5`"` resolution and 1`"` positions.

	PyRAF PyRAF is a new command language for IRAF based on the Python scripting language. It is useful both for interactive data analysis and for writing analysis scripts.

	Image Compression My hcompress image compression software was used for the CD-ROM distribution of the Digitized Sky Survey, the RealSky, and many other projects. Continuing work includes a progressive image transmission protocol & library using the hcompress compression engine. Here are some examples.

	Image Restoration Developer of image restoration methods used for Hubble Space Telescope data. Co-editor of proceedings of the 1st and 2nd HST image restoration workshops.

	Guide Star Catalog-II Developer of the star-galaxy classification algorithm for GSC-II, a project to construct a new, all-sky catalog of one billion stars and galaxies with colors and proper motions from digitized Schmidt photographic plates. For more information on GSC-II, see the GSC2 home page.

	Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys I am on the instrument development team for the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys, which will be installed on HST during an early 2002 servicing mission by the Space Shuttle. I designed the algorithm being used for on-board compression of the ACS images (described in a Postscript paper published in the proceedings of the March 1998 Kona SPIE meeting.)