This ontology covers instruments that are commonly used in space based missions. Ontology for DARPA program on F6 space mission clusters. It is part of an ontology that is aggregated by F6_root.owl. Ed Shaya is a member of the team: " F6: A Design Tool for Stably Adaptable Systems." PI - Pamela E. Clark (Catholic University of America) funded by the DARPA F6 program
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Ed Shaya
November 10, 2011
Absorption spectroscopy
Active optics
Adaptive optics
All-sky camera
All-sky photography
Altazimuth mounting
Altimeter
An instrument designed to measure altitude.
An instrument designed to register changes in atmospheric pressure accompanying changes in altitude (Source - merriam-webster.com)
Angular resolution
Antenna
Antenna design
Antireflection coating
Aperture
Aperture synthesis
Astigmatism
Astrographic camera
Astronomical optics
Atmospheric window
Automated telescope
Automatic patrol telescope
Avalanche photodiode
Balloon-borne instrument
Bessel photometry
Bessel UBVRI photometry
Bias calibration
Bouwers telescope
Broad band photometry
Charge-coupled device
Charge-injection device
Calibration
A calorimeter (from Latin calor, meaning heat) is a device used for calorimetry, the science of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes as well as heat capacity. Differential scanning calorimeters, isothermal microcalorimeters, titration calorimeters and accelerated rate calorimeters are among the most common types. A simple calorimeter just consists of a thermometer attached to a metal container full of water suspended above a combustion chamber. (Source - Wikipedia.org)
Camera
Television camera
Camera lens
Cassegrain antenna
Cassegrain focus
Cassegrain telescope
Catadioptric system
Catoptric system
CCD observation
CCD photometry
Chromatic aberration
Cloud monitor
Coelostat
Collimation
Collimator
Color photography
Colorimetry
A colorimeter is a device used in colorimetry. In scientific fields the word generally refers to the device that measures the absorbance of particular wavelengths of light by a specific solution. This device is most commonly used to determine the concentration of a known solute in a given solution by the application of the Beer-Lambert law, which states that the concentration of a solute is proportional to the absorbance. (Source - Wikipedia.org)
Coma
Comatic aberration
Corrector plate
Coude focus
Cryostat
An apparatus for maintaining a constant low temperature especially below 0°C - Source merriam-webster.com.
Dark-current calibration
Data acquisition
Dead-time calibration
Detector array
Dichroic mirror
Differential image motion monitor
Diffraction grating
Digital image
Digital recorder
Dioptric system
Dipole antenna
Directional antenna
Dish antenna
Drift scan
Earth's field NMR (EFNMR) is Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) using the geomagnetic field to replace the usual strong laboratory magnetic fields.
Echelle grating
An instrument used to measure voltage, electric current, resistance, power, etc. of an electric circuit.
Electronic camera
Electronic instrument
Electronics
Electronographic camera
English mounting
Equatorial mounting
False color photography
Fiber optics
Field corrector
Field curvature
Field of view
Filter wheel
flat field
Flexure
Focus
Fourier transform spectroscopy
Gamma-ray spectroscopy
Gamma-ray telescope
German mounting
Global Positioning System
Grating response
A gravimeter or gravitometer is an instrument used in gravimetry for measuring the local gravitational field of the Earth. A gravimeter is a type of accelerometer, specialized for measuring the constant downward acceleration of gravity, which varies by about 0.5% over the surface of the Earth. Though the essential principle of design is the same as in other accelerometers, gravimeters are typically designed to be much more sensitive in order to measure very tiny fractional changes within the Earth's gravity of 1 g, caused by nearby geologic structures or the shape of the Earth and by temporal tidal variations. (Source - Wikipedia.org)
Grazing incidence telescope
Gregorian telescope
Grism
Photoheliograph
Heliostat
High-resolution spectrosopy
Horn antenna
Image
Infrared telescope
InstrumentSpecification
Instrumental profile
A piece of Equipment designed to make measurements or to aid in precise work.
Integration time
Interference filter
Interference spectrosocopy
An instrument used to interfere electromagnetic waves.
Interferometric correlation
Lens
Lens antenna
Line profile
Linearity calibration
Long slit
Maksutov telescope
a device used to measure or compare physical properties
A device used to diagnose or treat diseases or bodily damage.
Medium band photometry
Microwave antenna
Microwave spectroscopy
Mills cross antenna
Mirror
Modulation transfer function
Multiple mirror telescope
Narrow band photometry
Nasmyth focus
Neutral density filter
Newtonian focus
Objective grating
Objective prism
Observatory
Optical aberration
Optical component
Optical design
Optical fiber
Optical film
Optical filter
Optical instrument
Optical observation
Optical radar
Optical scanners
Optical spectroscopy
Optical surface
Optical system
Optical telescope
Optical testing
Optical transfer function
Optical transmission window
Optical waveguide
Optical window
Optics
Point spread function
Parabolic antenna
Parabolic mirror
Parabolic reflector
Pulse counter
Phase sensitive detector
Phase switching
Phased array
Photoconductive cell
Photoelectronic device
Photodiode
Photoelectric instrument
Photoelectric photometry
Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is the practice of determining the geometric properties of objects from photographic images. (Source - Wikipedia.org)
Photograph
Photographic film
Photographic filter
Photographic instrument
Photographic material
Photographic photometry
Photographic plate
Photography
Photometric system
Photon counting system
Photoresistor
Photovoltaic cell
Prime focus
Prism
Quadrant detector
Quantum efficiency
Quarter wave plate
Radar
Radar equipment
Radar mapping
Radar telescope
Radio antenna
Radio interference
radio frequency noise
Radio Interferometer
Radio observatory
Radio telescope
Radio transmission window
Radio waveguide
Radioheliograph
Radio spectroscopy
Read out noise
Reflecting telescope
Reflection grating
Reflector antenna
Refracting telescope
Remote control system
Remote sensing
Resolution
Reticle
Ritchey-Chretien telescope
Rocket-borne instrument
Satellite-borne instrument
Schmidt telescope
a device used to collect scientific data, often electronic in nature
Secondary mirror
Seeing
Seeing monitor
Self-calibration method
Semiconductor device
Sensitivity
Array
Shaped reflector
Shot noise
Shutter
Sidelobe
spurious lobe in a telescope's sensitivity beam
Siderostat
Silver coating
Site testing
Slit mask
Solar optical telescope
Solar radio telescope
Solar telescope
Space observatory
Space probe instrument
Space telescope
Speckle
Spectral band
Spectral resolution
Spectrograph slit
Spectrography
Spectroheliograph
Spherical aberration
Stereophotogrammetry involves estimating the three-dimensional coordinates of points on an object. These are determined by measurements made in two or more photographic images taken from different positions. (Source Wikipedia.org)
Streak photography
Subreflector
Television
Telescope
Telescope array
Telescope design
Telescope mirror
Telescope mounting
Tertiary mirror
A thermocouple is a device consisting of two different conductors (usually metal alloys) that produce a voltage proportional to a temperature difference between either end of the pair of conductors. Thermocouples are a widely used type of temperature sensor for measurement and control (Source - Wikipedia.org)
Thin film
Three-dimensional spectroscopy
Time-resolved spectroscopy
Tip-tilt mirror
Transfer function
Transmission grating
Two-dimensional spectroscopy
VPH grating
Ultraviolet camera
Ultraviolet filter
Ultraviolet photography
Ultraviolet telescope
Vignetting
Waveguide
A device used to record aspects of the weather.
Wide-angle lens
Wide-field telescope
X-ray telescope
Yagi antenna
Yoke mounting