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

-

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:

-

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.