A generic data exchange scheme between FITS format and C structures
Peng, Wei, Tom Nicinski · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1994
A flexible and efficient scheme allowing arbitrary FITS Binary and ASCII Tables to be converted to arbitrary C structures at runtime is presented. This scheme has been successfully implemented and used with Shiva (Survey Human Interface and Visualization Environment), a package developed by Fermilab for the analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data.