This section provides information about the pipeline processing of Paranal data, including calibration,quality control and trend analysis.

The Quality Control and Data Processing pages provides information about the pipeline-processing of data from the VLT and about their quality control. The VLT/VLTI Data Pipelines and Calibration Plans pages provide an overview of the VLT/VLTI pipelines and their status.

Data processing is carried out by the Data Processing and Quality Control (QC) Group which is part of the Back-End Operations Department. Using the results of the data processing, the QC group monitors the evolution of data and instrument quality with time. 

The ESO Science Data Products Forum is a platform for sharing ideas, methods, software and data to assist with the production of science data products from ESO telescopes.