Training Events

• Training_JAXA_Aug2016 - Information for the training class at JAXA

• Image-Based-Modeling - Information for the training class at RPI - 1st Annual PRI Workshop on Image-Based Modeling and Navigation for Space Applications

Goals

• Main goal is to get Dr. Weirich up to speed to run Sensitivity Tests
• Install SPC software for users
• Specific things to learn
  • Be able to create landmarks and add images
  • Basic trouble shooting and fixing mis-registeration
  • Perform tiling
  • Do iterations
  • Run residuals, geometry
• Optional, depending on time and understanding
  • Register images to shape model or maps
  • Autoregister
• Practice
  • Create landmarks
  • Tile landmarks
  • Run Calibration test
  • Try out error-injected images into the calibration test

Student Prep

• Stuff to read
  • Gaskell's 2008
  • Palmer's basic write up
  • Jackman's slides
  • Get a copy of the manual
• Software - Please load the following

  • XCode - Apple's main compiler for OS X. It has many libraries you need. - https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

  • gfortran - https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#MacOS

  • spicelib - http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit_FORTRAN.html

  • MacPorts - http://www.macports.org/install.php

  • gnuplot - Installing using MacPorts, "sudo port install gnuplot"

  • imagemagick Installing using MacPorts, "sudo port install ImageMagick"

  • GraphicConverter -- http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/

Stuff I need to get ready

• Test Data
  • Need a test case -- mostly finished object.
  • Somewhere where they can tile
  • Images of what the current shape model and what should look like when done
• Documentation
  • done - Get Jackman's notes into Wiki
  • done - Get Bob's abstracts (doxygen) into the Wiki
  • Get Component Test Procedures into the Wiki
• done - Get room and display set up
• in progress - Develop a NDA

Activities

• Day 1, Tuesday
  • Introductions and facilities
  • NDA
  • Install the software and test cases
  • Introduce SPC and Bob
  • Review test plan
  • Review Component Test Readness Review
  • Teach basics of SPC
    • Show wiki
    • Provide documentations, unix help
• Day 2, Wednesday
  • Basic SPC stuff
    • Make more landmarks
    • Look at Rosetta's difficulties
  • Tiling
    • map_coverage
    • bigmap
    • make_tilefile
    • make_scriptT
    • find_nofitT
• Day 3, Thursday
  • Look at the map coverage
    • map_coverage
    • EQNOR4
    • 0 .001
  • Build and view the bigmap

    • bigmap < support/BigEqN4.in

    • echo EQNOR4 | showmap
    • convert EQNOR4.pgm whatever.jpg
  • Review some output files
    • find_nofitT
    • more 173.OOT

  • Do a Standard_iteration (see wiki --> Work Flow)

  • Show how to fill a landmark with a bigmap
  • Make more landmarks (near the poles)

  • Show how to "find" in lithos

• Day 4, Friday
  • Introduce

    • register

    • autoregister

    • residuals

  • Error analysis
  • Run calibration
    • Do tile
    • Look at errors
      • CompareOBJ
      • Other tools

Training Skill Levels

• Level 1 - Introduction to SPC and the most basic tasks with landmarks.
  • Create a landmark
  • Add images
  • Autoremove images
  • Build template
    • Select images
    • Show which ones
    • Correlate
  • Align
    • Autoalign
    • Align with image
    • Align with gradients
  • Topography
    • Just using defaults
• Level 2 - Basic user - Basic ability to do SPC's most key functions. Can support operations under direct supervision of a fully-trained SPC user. Can run most key SPC functions, but requires help bridging gaps
  • Building workspaces
    • Bigmap
    • Showmap

    • Lithos -> find

  • Batch landmark generation
    • Map_coverage
    • Make_tilefile
    • Make_scriptT
    • Find_nofitT
    • Export
  • Batch Run
    • Duplicates
    • Make_LMRKLISTX
    • Make_scriptP
    • Find_nofitP
  • Display
• Level 3 - Experienced User - Capable of doing all essential functions of SPC to process data and build shape model. Can run most of a project, but would need support for initial setup and trouble shooting
  • Establishing and Verifying Connections
    • Overlaps
    • Limbs
  • Build Shape
    • Densify
    • Dumber
    • CompareOBJ
    • ICQ format
  • Analysis
    • Residuals
    • Geometry
    • Sigmas
  • Ingesting images
    • Makesumfile.txt -- adding kernels
    • Autoregister
    • Register
    • Make_scriptR
    • Make_scriptA
  • 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 - Capable of executing all functions needed to run a SPC project, to include configuration, kernel management and navigation.
  • Run a full project
    • Define configuration files and keywords
  • 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. Understands the internal structure of SPC's code and file format in order to make software changes.
  • Advanced troubleshooting
  • Modifications to SPC code
    • Make updates to process_fits/img
    • Creating SUMFILES/NOMINALS using non-SPICE geometric data
  • Error propagation

Test Prep

• Test Plan
• Regression Test
• Check all data -- make directory
• Get ready for evaluation
  • Compare obj
  • Easier test
• Develop tracking log
• Read over procedures
• Teach how to build a shape (using script)
• Work out tools to do evaluation