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STRF
strf is the satellite tracking toolkit for radio observations (RF). The software is designed to allow tracking of satellites from radio observations, using Doppler curves to identify satellites and/or determine their orbits.
The software is designed for linux operating systems, and will work with most software defined radios (SDRs), certainly those that are supported by http://www.gnuradio.com. The software comes with tools for data acquisition, performing FFTs to generate timestamped spectrograms (waterfall plots), and analysis, to extract and analyse Doppler curves.
Install
- Clone locally the code repository
- Install common dependencies
- gfortran
- gcc
- libpng-dev
- libx11-dev
- libjpeg-dev
- libexif-dev
- Build & install required libraries
- pgplot-5.2.2: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
- gsl-2.4: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-2.4.tar.gz
- Run
make
on the strf folder
Run notes
- You will need to set the following environment variables to run strf.
ST_COSPAR
COSPAR numberST_DATADIR
path to strf directoryST_TLEDIR
path to TLE directoryST_OBSDIR
path to observations directory - You should install NTP support on the system and configure time/date to automatically sinchronize to time servers.