Annotation Proceedings of a November 1998 meeting present the latest findings in software development in astronomy, in sections on software development and management, applications to problems in astronomy, observatory planning and scheduling, telescope and instrument control systems, data pipelines, archiving and information services, data analysis and processing techniques, astrostatistics and databases, user interfaces and visualization, and software systems and tools. Specific subjects include recent improvements to HST parallel scheduling, remote observing with Java, cosmic ray rejection, and the Gemini data handling system. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Using information and scale as central themes, this comprehensive survey explains how to handle real problems in astronomical data analysis through a modern arsenal of powerful techniques. The coverage includes chapters or appendices on: detection and filtering; image compression; multichannel, multiscale, and catalog data analytical methods; wavelets transforms, Picard iteration, and software tools.