This volume responds to the need for comprehensive and timely review of data analysis techniques in Astronomy, especially the fast and automated means of data analysis.

• Information on Astronomical catalogues, databases and large surveys • Basics of Artificial Neural Networks, Principal Component Analysis and their application to automated data analysis techniques • Introduction to the latest data analysis techniques being followed at several astronomical observatories in the areas of Imaging, Spectroscopy and Photometry • A Reference manual for reduction of Mosaic data • Future missions,virtual telescopes and observatories

Preface / Workshop Photograph / Large Astronomical Catalogues / ACE: Astronomical Cataloging Environment / World Centres for Astronomical Data / MASCOT: A Multi-wavelength All Sky Catalogue for Support to Observations with Ground and Space-based Telescopes / An Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks / Principal Component Analysis and its Application to Stellar Spectra / Automated Stellar Classification for Large Surveys: A Review of Methods and Results / Automated Detection, Extraction and Classification of Low dispersion Objective Prism Spectra in Star-forming Regions of SMC / Automated Classification of IRAS Sources / Bayesian Approach for Star-Galaxy Classification / Testing the Automated Classification of the Second Guide Star Catalogue / Slitless Spectroscopy and ANN Based Automated Analysis / Predicting Dynamics through Artificial Neural Networks / Primary Event Direction Reconstruction with Wide-angle Cerenkov Detector Array using Artificial Neural Networks / Weierstrass Transform and the Analysis of Noisy Signals / Digital Imaging Techniques for Solar Magnetic and Velocity Fields / Auto Search for Nonlinear Behaviour in Light Curves of Variable Stars / Automated Data Acquisition and Analysis System for the UPSO Three Channel Fast Photometer / An Online Photometric Data Acquisition and Analysis Facility at Japal-Rangapur Observatory / The Inner Milky Way from Near and Mid IR Surveys / Characteristics of PRL’s IR Camera and Image Analysis Procedures / Photometry with NICMOS-3 Array Detector from Mt. Abu IR Observatory / The Indian Astronomical Observatory’s 2m Telescope at Hanle: Remote Observations and Data Analysis Pipeline / Fractal Structure of Molecular Clouds / Virtual Observatory of the Future / The UVIT Automated Pipeline / Digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey / Survey of Surveys / The Reduction of Mosaic Data / Reduction of Imaging Polarimetry Images / Workshop Summary / Author Index

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