Training Skill Levels

Version 2

As of 12 Jan 2023

These define what skills a student should be able to perform for each training level. These are not intended to be exact definitions, but a place to start.

Level 1 - Introduction

• Requirement
  • 1/2 day training
• Goal
  • Do LITHOS SPC and the most basic tasks with landmarks
• Type user
  • Needs direct supervision
  • All materials are given and directory fully setup
  • Any difficulties or problems are supported by a more experienced user
• Specific Skills
  • Create a landmark
  • Add images
  • Autoremove images
  • Build template
    • Select images
    • Show which ones
    • Correlate
  • Align
    • Autoalign
    • Align with image
    • Align with gradients
  • Find height

Level 2 - Basic user

• Requirement
  • 3-4 days training
• Goal

  • Basic ability to do SPC's most key function lithos

  • Build global and region models densify, bigmap

  • Ingest new images: process_fits, register, autoregister

  • Increase resolution make_scriptT, map_coverage

• Type user
  • SPC directory and configurations are provided
  • Able to build non-troublesome regional or global DTM without support
  • Does not change "standard" setting
  • Can support operations under direct supervision of a fully-trained SPC user. Can run most key SPC functions, but requires help bridging gaps
  • Uses pre-defined scripts (or blocks)
• Specific Skills
  • Building regional DTMs
    • Bigmap
    • Showmap

    • Lithos -> find

  • Batch landmark generation
    • Map_coverage
    • Make_tilefile
    • Make_scriptT
    • Find_nofitT
    • Export
  • Batch AES iterations
    • Duplicates
    • Make_LMRKLISTX
    • Make_scriptP
    • Find_nofitP
  • Ingesting images
    • Autoregister
    • Register
    • Make_scriptR
    • Make_scriptA
  • Build Shape
    • Densify
    • Dumber
    • CompareOBJ
    • ICQ format
  • Display
  • Basic analysis
    • Residuals
    • Geometry

Level 3 - Experienced User

• Requirement
  • Has 1+ months of practice on SPC
• Goal
  • Run all SPC commands according to standard routines
  • Can generate the DTM for a mission
• Type of User
  • Need support for initial setup (don't mess with make_sumfiles.txt, INIT_LITHOS.TXT, but can install meta kernel)
  • Can trouble shoot all of SPC-specific modeling functions
  • Is able to build scripts for SPC (or blocks)
  • Is able to answer own questions using SPC wiki
• Specific Skills
  • Establishing and Verifying Connections
    • Overlaps
    • Limbs
  • Detailed Analysis
    • Residuals
    • Geometry
    • Sigmas
  • Advanced landmark techniques
    • Setting normal
    • Options for solving the height
    • Landmark resize
    • Replacing topo with map or shape
    • Troubleshooting problem landmarks
  • Visualizing
    • Surface_imager
    • Imager_grid
    • Imager_MG
    • view_image_stereo/rgb
    • view_maps
    • view_shape (geometry.in)
    • shape2map

Level 4 - Expert User

* Requirement

• Has run one or more entire projects

• Goal
  • Capable of executing all functions needed to run a SPC project, to include configuration, kernel management and navigation
• Type of User
  • No support needed for most any SPC configuration, problem or task
  • Understands the SPC components for conditioning solutions

  • Build SPC configuration files without support make_sumfiles.txt, INIT_LITHOS.TXT

  • Troubleshoots configurations
  • Specific Skills
  • Setup
    • Init_lithos
    • Make_sumfiles.txt
    • Setup SPICE
    • Spacecraft uncertanity
    • Distortion field
    • Blemishes
    • Limber/Tyler
    • Dynamics
  • Coordinate frames
    • Pole
    • Omega
    • Shift
    • New_pole
  • Weighting
    • LMKWTS
    • PICWTS
  • Import
  • Integration with navigation

Level 5 - Expert Developer

* Requirement

• Understands SPC math
• Writes in FORTRAN

• Goal
  • Develops tools and fixes bugs for SPC
• Type of User
  • Understands the internal structure of SPC's code and file format in order to make software changes
  • Advanced troubleshooting
  • Provides support and training
• Specific Skills
  • Modifications to SPC code
    • Make updates to process_fits/img
    • Creating SUMFILES/NOMINALS using non-SPICE geometric data
  • Error propagation