SuperCOSMOS SIAP: Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Image Service:
SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys SSS SIAP Cutout Service

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Short name: SuperCOSMOS SIAP IVOA Identifier: ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss-siapPublisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID] More Info: http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/siap VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2008 Aug 20 15:04:43Z
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Description

Simple image access to SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys (SSS) images (scans of photographic survey plates)

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburghivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk[Pub. ID]

Creator: WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

Contact Information:

X Mark Holliman
Email: msh at roe.ac.uk

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: 1.0
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

This resource was registered on: 2008 Aug 20 15:04:43Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2019 Jul 09 14:41:02Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to data (specifically, images). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Survey	Subject keywords: SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys SSS, SIAP, scans of UKST Bj, R, I, H-alpha, short-red, field 287, POSSI-e, POSSII Bj, R and I
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/siap

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Wavebands covered: Optical

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Image AccessXX

This is a standard IVOA service used to search for images from this resource that overlap with a specified region of the sky.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

http://horus.roe.ac.uk:8080/ssa/SSS_SIAP?

Image service type: Cutout: images will be cut out to match the requested region.
Maximum query region accepted: no size limit
Maximum region size returned: longitude: 0.5 degrees; latitude: 0.5 degrees
Maximum image size returned: 2700 X 2700 pixels
Maximum image size returned: 20 MB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 300