… In this paper, we give an overview of the technical aspects of the survey, such as areal
coverage, field placement, choice of filters, limiting magnitudes, observing strategies, data
processing and calibration pipelines, survey timeline, and data products. We also describe the
primary scientific topics of the NGVS, which include: the galaxy luminosity and mass functions;
the color–magnitude relation; galaxy scaling relations; compact stellar systems; galactic nuclei;
the extragalactic distance scale; the large-scale environment of the cluster and its relationship …