Kopernik

Week One

Title: Weekly Updates on Kopernik

Date: 02/06/2022

Subject: Getting Started

Attendance: Baris Izar, oguz Kircan, Ata Akin, Professor Jones, Andrew Deskur

Meeting Agenda

- Satisfying necessary paperwork before starting the Kopernik Project.

Current Status

- Prof. Jones shared the information about the project with us in our first meeting.

- Task distribution was made, including who worked in which part of the project.

- Ata Akin will continue to look at the meteor m2 weather satellite that he has been working on in the previous period.

- Baris Izar will display the images obtained from the satellites that will work on the FTP server on its website.

- Oguz Kircan will provide support to both sides and monitor the progress of the project.

Accomplishments

- Set up a time for weekly meetings with Prof. Jones, Andrew Deskur, Ata Akin , Oguz Kircan and Baris Izar.

- We (Oğuz and Barış) started to study Selenium and Wordpress.

- Ata informed us about the project more in depth.

Week Two

Title: Meeting with Andrew Deskur

Date: 02/13/2022

Subject: Kopernik Project Requirements

Attendance: Oguz Kircan, Baris Izar, Ata Akin, Professor Jones, Andrew Deskur

Meeting Agenda

- We showed what we did in the past week.

- Ata was able to execute code for capturing the images.

- Oguz and Baris found the tutorial about word press and the raspberry pi to better understand and study.

Current Status

- After open the weather folder after you got in when you called predict software it asks for Ground station location I already entered the values when you did that once you do not need to do it again. Which helps to predict software to understand your location and when the satellite passes close to ground station the program will know.

Accomplishments

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Week Three

Title: Meeting with Andrew Deskur

Date: 02/20/2022

Subject: Kopernik Project Requirements

Attendance: Oguz Kircan, Baris Izar, Ata Akin, Professor Jones, Andrew Deskur

Accomplishments:

- Baris connected to the VNC viewer without a problem.

- find_images() method inside the ftp_allfiles.py, was not functioning. Now, it's debugged and working.

- ftp_allfiles.py runs without giving any errors. It creates a ftp object and connects to the host through it.

- The data transfer is also will be through that object. It is also possible to change the directory

Problems

- Even though the code seems working, we are not sure how to test if ftp_allfiles.py really uploades the images.

To Do

- Test if ftp_allfiles.py successfully handles the file transfer.

Week Five

Accomplishments:

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Problems:

New NOAA GOES server is still freezing and too laggy to use. We are trying to understand what's causing it.

Things we had checked so far:

• Running out of memory 

There's still 11 gb available memory. So, this is not the problem.

• Operating System that VNC is installed on

It freezes on both Windows and MAC. So, it is not likely.

• Missing updates

There are two packages that need upgrading. They may be the cause.

  * Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bullseye InRelease
  * Hit:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian bullseye InRelease

We did not update them yet.

        

• CPU Usage

When we checked the CPU usage of the softwares', we saw that their CPU usage mostly differs between 15-40 percent. At the beginning, we thought this would be the problem. Yet, it was the same with the NOAA APT server and it seems working properly.

• Softwares

Problem might be caused by a software, which is installed on New GOES and not installed on Kopernik NOAA APT. There are only two softwares meeting the criteria: 

  * ImageMagick

Deleting ImageMagick did not effect the freezing problem. 

  * GNU Radio Companion

It's still trying to remove the packages.

TO DO:

• Find what's causing the abnormal lag on NOAA GOES server and solve it.
• Try to implement the new Meteor-M 2 satellite imagery capture setup.

Week Seven

Accomplishments:

• Raspberry NOAA V2's installation is complete and it is ready to use.

• We were getting an error saying that "No package matching "libjpeg9" is available." This took the most of our time. In order to solve that, we comment out the dependencies including libjpeg9; and install libjpeg62-turbo manually instead.

• We did the same for the package "predict" as well.

• During the installation, we follow the following link: https://github.com/jekhokie/raspberry-noaa-v2

• To overcome the "No package matching ..... is available error", we follow the following link: https://github.com/jekhokie/raspberry-noaa-v2/issues/515

TO DO:

• We will observe the pi to see is it working or not or is it freezing.

Week Eight - 04-04

Accomplishments:

• We got the antenna from Drew and set it up.

• We updated the system according to the Drew's email.

The station information (predict):

Call Sign: K2ZRO

Latitude : 42°00.14' If you need decimal degrees use: 42.003889

Longitude: 76°02.01' (76.033611 or - 76.033611

Altitude : 521 meters

Settings.yml:

Latitude  : 42.003889

Longitude : -76.033611

Altitude  : 521

Timezone offset: -4

Ntp server: time-a-g.nist.gov

meteor_receiver: 'rtl_fm'

noaa_receiver: 'rtl_fm'

TO DO:

• We will check where the images are saved and see if the new NOAA V2 is working.

• We will check the after installation part of the jekhokie's github repository and see if we could find any other useful feature to implement.

Week Ten- 17-04

Accomplishments:

• We installed "fbi" to view the images on Raspberry Pi Lite and now, we are able to view them. More info can be found on the following link.

 https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2017/02/how-to-display-images-on-raspbian-command-line-with-fbi/

• We connected the Raspberry Pi to ssh, using PuTTy, so that we could use multiple terminals to make various tests.

• We test the reception, which will validate if the antenna, reception line, reception hardware and software is working correctly. We should've heard a voice, but there wasn't any.

• We checked that if the antenna is connected to the rtl fm radio, using a headphone. It seems okay.

• We checked the schedule with "crontab - l". All seems fine.

• If the photo is captured in daylight, our sum_min_elevation variable must be belove the sun angle. In the last capture, the sun angle was 25, and our sum_min_elevation is 6. So, this seems fine as well.

Problems:

• All the satellite images are completely red.

• We are trying to add the functionality to pushing all captured, processed images to a destination email address. We could not manage to do that yet.

TO DO:

• We will figure out what's causing the images to become red.

• We will add the functionality to push the captured images as email.

• We will make further research for the reception.

• We will check the noise level. The process will take five hours and produce a heatmap waterfall image.

Week Eleven - 24-04

Accomplishments:

• Added a new file to the NOAA APT

• New python file wpbot2 is doing to the same thing as wpbot.py but the only difference is it loads images to the NOAA15 folder instead of the weather folder, and also deletes the previous files.

• We setup the new Raspberry Pi Lite at Kopernik Observatory.

TO DO:

• We'll check if the images are still red.

Week Twelve - 02-05

Accomplished

• We managed to display the images on PC, using the web panel, which contains the images from passes, and some information regarding the schedules and the satellites' locations. The meteor images are seem pretty clear.

• In order to use the web panel, while you are connected the same internet connection with pi and with your PC, you need to connect pi's local ip adress. In this case we connected to " https://192.168.1.240/" which directs us to web panel. You can change the web panel settings from raspberry-noaa-v2/config/settings.yml".

• We managed to get the images from pi to our PC. This process can be done in two ways. One does not require any software, yet you can only send one image at a time to your PC. More info can be found on the following video:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsov0FEhZtk&ab_channel=AbhayKant

• The other option to transfer files between pi and Pc, is an application called "WinSCP". We used this one to trasnfer all the previous images to our local PC. The software can be downloaded from the following link:

 https://winscp.net/eng/index.php 

• We managed to get the pictures according to the noaa satellite numbers and upload them to the website with their noaa satellite numbers. (Baris' part)

Problems

• Only the meteor images are there. There are no images from any NOAA satellite, only the spectograms.

To Do:

• Understand why there are no NOAA satellite images.

• We'll figure out how to send the images to the website.