The Impact of Large Scale Near-IR Sky Surveys

I. The New IR—Surveys and Other Surveys.- Infrared Surveys: the Impact on Modern Astronomy.- The Deep Near Infrared Southern Sky Survey (DENIS): Progress Status and Scientific Achievements.- The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS): Overview and Status.- The DENIS Operations: Evaluation of the DENIS Survey from La Silla.- The Guide Star Catalog and the Digitized Sky Survey as Resources for Other Surveys.- The ISO Serendipity Survey.- II. Galactic Structure.- Galactic Warps.- Studying Galactic Structure and Evolution with Galaxy Models.- Large-Scale Near-Infrared Counts and Galactic Structure.- Interpreting Surveys With Models.- Galactic Plane Investigation from DENIS Observations.- The Galactic Central Regions at 3.6 µm.- The 15-µm ISOGAL Survey of the Inner Galactic Disc.- Stellar Population Synthesis; Baade’s Window: OGLE vs. DENIS.- Modelling the Distribution of Red Variables in the Multicolor (I, J, K, 12 µm) Parameter Space.- Infrared Appearance of Time-Dependent Models of Dust—enshrouded Carbon-Mira Atmospheres.- First Results of a Near-infrared Monitoring Programme of OH/IR Stars.- The Database of Galactic Planetary Nebulae at Innsbruck: a DENIS Sub-database.- A Method for Correcting Star Counts in Moderately Overcrowded Fields.- A Model for the Emission of the Stellar Warp in the Near Infrared and its Comparison With the Stellar Warp.- A Large Deep k?-band Galaxy Survey.- 1.6µm Classification of Bright Sources Discovered During 2MASS Prototyping.- A Large-scale 13CO Distribution of the Galaxy: a Global View of Star Forming Clouds.- III. Star Formation Regions and Young Objects.- A DENIS Survey of Orion Molecular Clouds.- Large Scale Distribution of T Tauri Stars as Observed with the Rosat X-Ray Survey.- X-Ray—IR Observations of Molecular Cloud Cores.-Prospects of Brown Dwarf Detection by Near-IR Surveys (DENIS, 2MASS).- Search for Evolved Objects and Young Stellar Objects from the DENIS Database.- The Search for Star Formation Regions.- From I, J, K To mBol in AGB Stars.- Star Formation in the Vela Molecular Clouds: H2 Imaging Survey.- Near-IR Characterization of AGB Sources.- The Multispectral Study of Galactic Plane Star-Forming Regions.- Clustering Around Herbig Ae/Be Stars.- Young Stellar Objects in L1641: a Submillimeter Continuum Study.- IV. Image Processing and Data.- DENIS Data Processing at PDAC.- The 2MASS Point Source Processing Pipeline: Design and Prototype Results.- The Optical Identification of DENIS Sources.- Photometric Calibration of DENIS.- The ISO Calibration Programme.- The Effect of Stellar Contamination on Different Measures of Galaxy Photometry.- Self Organizing Maps and Imaging Surveys.- Detection of Covered Substructures in Multidimensional Parameter Space: An Application for the DENIS Survey.- The DENIS-LEDA Connexion: a Running Pipeline.- V. Extragalactic.- 2MASS Extragalactic Studies: Early Results from The Prototype Camera.- Preliminary Galaxy Extraction from DENIS Images.- Classification of Galaxies in the Optical Versus the Near Infrared.- Circumnuclear Starbursts in Barred Galaxies.- A New Model of Spectral Evolution of Galaxies: PEGASE.- Broad-band Energy Distribution of Faint IRAS Galaxies.- The Radio Properties of X-ray Selected AGNs.