Green Bank Keyword Convention
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Description:
This convention was originally developed at a meeting in Green Bank, West
Virginia to address how to represent World Coordinate System (WCS)
information for images that are stored within a vector column of a FITS
binary table. This concept has since been generalized to have wider
applications.
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Submitted:
23-Aug-2010 by W. Pence, NASA/GSFC
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Registered:
January 2015
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Date and Place of First Usage:
circa 1989, Green Bank/NRAO
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Extent of Usage:
Widely used, especially in radio astronomy data.
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Full Documentation:
PDF format,
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Sample FITS File:
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Sample Header Listing:
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