Next: The LOFAR Global Sky Model: Some Design Challenges . Up: Surveys & Large Scale Data Management . ... The Palomar-QUEST survey is a major new survey being undertaken by Caltech, Yale, JPL and Indiana University to repeatedly observe of the sky ( sq. deg. between ) in seven passbands. ... Palomar-QUEST is the prototype VO-integrated synoptic sky survey and marks the beginning of an exciting new era in astronomy: the characterization of the variable optical sky. ...