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Goals

The goals for the design were:

Implement the MeasurementEquation, thus allowing straightforward polarization calibration and imaging in AIPS++, but with special cases corresponding to single polarization or just parallel hands,
Allow all important and hopefully most extant calibration and imaging schemes to be coded in AIPS++,
Allow observatories to develop custom calibration and imaging packages,
Allow a programmer to add new calibration and deconvolution algorithms as easily and naturally as possible,
Allow future instruments (such as the MMA and the SKAI) to be supported in AIPS++ with minimal changes to existing code,
Support as standard observing: mosaiced, spectral-line, multi-feed, polarization observations with synthesis arrays and single dishs,
Allow calibration and imaging algorithms to be used as simply part of higher level algorithms,
Acheive performance goals that will allow the calibration and imaging system to be used for standard production processing.

The design has been checked against the user specifications (Cornwell, 1995).

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