  The Atlasmaker project is using Grid technology, in combination with NVO
interoperability, to create new knowledge resources in astronomy. The product
is a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, scientifically trusted image atlas of
the sky, made by federating many different surveys at different wavelengths,
times, resolutions, polarizations, etc. The Atlasmaker software does resampling
and mosaicking of image collections, and is well-suited to operate with the
Hyperatlas standard. Requests can be satisfied via on-demand computations or by
accessing a data cache. Computed data is stored in a distributed virtual file
system, such as the Storage Resource Broker (SRB). We expect these atlases to
be a new and powerful paradigm for knowledge extraction in astronomy, as well
as a magnificent way to build educational resources. The system is being
incorporated into the data analysis pipeline of the Palomar-Quest synoptic
survey, and is being used to generate all-sky atlases from the 2MASS, SDSS, and
DPOSS surveys for joint object detection.
