The Impact of Near-Infrared Sky Surveys on Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998 Proceedings of the 3rd EUROCONFERENCE on Near-Infrared Surveys held at Meudon Observatory, France, June 19–20, 1997 Astrophysics and Space Science Library Series, Vol. 230

Thirty years after the pioneering enterprise of Neugebauer and collabo­ rators, the astronomical sky is surveyed anew in the near infrared range with a gain in sensitivity greater than 4 orders of magnitude. Data have started to come through the "pipelines" routinely and at the turn of the century, the astronomical community will be provided with immense databases that will eventually contain accurate positions and 3- colour (or even 4-colour after merging DENIS and 2MASS data) photometry for hundreds million of stars and millions of galaxies. This fantastic harvest of data will eventually result of the huge effort that has been deployed on both sides of the Antlantic to promote 2 major projects, 2MASS and DENIS. rd The basic aim of this 3 Euroconference (and last in the series), was to put in close contact the scientific teams of 2MASS and DENIS in order to present and discuss the first significant results of the two surveys and to start promoting possible future plans

I-Infrared Survey Status.- The Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS) Progress Report and Scientific Results Overview.- The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS): Status Report November 1997.- Midcourse Space Experiment Surveys.- II-Galactic Structure.- The Impact of IR Surveys on Galactic Structure.- Resolved DENIS and UKIRT Infrared Stellar Observations Towards the Galactic Center.- Mass-Losing AGB Stars and Young Stars in the ISOGAL Survey.- Galactic Bulge from TMGS Star Counts.- IR Star Counts in the Inner Disc.- Spatial Distribution of Evolved Giant Stars in the Galactic Disc using DENIS Data (abstract).- III-Stars.- Infrared Emission of Carbon Stars.- AGB Stars in the Galactic Bulge observed by DENIS.- Analysis of DENIS Data in ISOGAL Fields.- In quest of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Near-IR Surveys.- Searching for Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with 2MASS.- DENIS Survey of AGB and Tip-RGB Stars in the LMC Bar West and the Optical Center Fields.- DENIS and HIPPARCOS: Luminosity and Kinematic Calibrations.- Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Scale Height of Mira Variables.- IV-Star forming regions and Interstellar medium.- 2MASS Observations of Molecular Clouds.- Star Forming Regions and Near-Infrared Surveys (abstract).- A Study of Extinction and Star Formation in the Chamaeleon I Cloud with DENIS.- DENIS and ISOCAM Observations of Chamaeleon I Cloud.- Planetary Nebulae with DENIS.- V Extragalactic.- Galaxies with DENIS.- Extragalactic Astronomy with 2MASS.- Large-scale Structures Behind the Milky Way from Near-IR surveys.- Rapid Extraction of Galaxies from DENIS.- Wide-angle Near-infrared Surveys of Local Galaxies.- Detection of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in 2MASS.- 2MASS and the Tully-Fisher Relation.- QSOs in the 2-Micron All-SkySurveys (abstract).- The First-VLA Survey: the first 5000 Square Degrees (abstract).- FIRST/VLA Radiosources in ELAI? Areas.- VI-Miscellaneous.- The SOM-fitting Method.- Near infrared Observations of Asteroids.- Index of Authors.