Software area

The Software Engineering Area provides the development teams with software engineering services such as the environment and tools to support the software lifecycle, software quality assurance and control. The area is also in charge of integrating software modules and preparing and validating releases before they are delivered to the project.
The Software Engineering Area provides support to the main software development projects of the institute (IAA), including ground-based instruments for then OSN and CAHA observatories, and space instruments. The develpoment includes instrumentation software and data flow software.

Lines Of Work And Specialization

• Control Software development for telescopes and astronomical instrumentation.This area covers all the phases involved in the software development of a scientific instrument from scratch till its retirement. (Low level and user applications development for telescope and instrument control).
• Supervision and maintenance of the control equipments in an astronomical observatory.
• Compilers design a implementation. That work area investigates how to make small compiler and how to apply it on the software instrument.
• Deductive fuzzy relational database. That area studies how to exploit the data obtained from a scientific instrument: storing them in a relational database and using fuzzy and deductive tools on them.
• Astronomical Data Archiving: development and implementation of astronomical data archives and Virtual Observatory (VO) applications.
• Astronomy data processing: development and implementation of pipeline systems for automatic reduction of astronomical data.

Instalations and equipment

• Computers
• Software licenses

Services

Consulting and technology advice, project and technical specifications review.

Some previous works

• Fly software of the GIADA instrument for the Rosetta mission
• Fly software of IMaX instrument for Sunrise mission
• Telescope control software for the OSN telescopes.
• Data reduction software pipeline for PANIC.

Staff