Jennifer Dunn (NRC), Shannon Jaeger (NRC), Séverin Gaudet (NRC), Steve Cockayne (NRC), Norman R. Hill (NRC)
The Data Handling System (DHS), developed for the GEMINI project by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, accepts observation data from multiple sources. There may be header information, image data in chunks (to be composed into a single image), multiple images for one dataset, all being received at different times. All information is written to one FITS file. The methods developed for handling and assembling data chunks is presented.