Telescopes and Instrumentation ESO Public Sur veys with the VST and VISTA The ESO Sur vey team: Magda A rnaboldi, Mark J. Neeser, L aura C. Parker, Piero Rosati, Marco Lombardi, JЖrg P. Dietrich, Wolfgang Hummel A n e w c h a p te r f o r E u r o p e a n a s t r o n o m y w i l l s o o n b e g i n w i t h d e d i c a t e d s u r ve y telescopes in the optical and near-infrar e d . ... This sur vey will also be complemented with near-infrared data from the VHS VISTA sur vey. ...