strf/README.md

STRF

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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 number ST_DATADIR path to strf directory ST_TLEDIR path to TLE directory ST_OBSDIR path to observations directory
• You should install NTP support on the system and configure time/date to automatically sinchronize to time servers.