Operations / Software Comments - 05/03/05 TIDE Telecon

Operations:
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There was a Polar attitude adjustment April 20.  TIDE's high voltage was
shut off at 12:50 and ramped starting at 14:00 on April 23. 


Software:
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Work continued adding the option to the TIDE processing software to contour
the velocity distribution data and adding the option to plot the data using
GSE and GSM coordinates in addition to b-field.  The problem with contouring
1996 data has been corrected for the b-field coordinate system.  There are
still some problems with the GSM and GSE projections with and without
contours.  Some preliminary plots are in 
http://satyr.msfc.nasa.gov/tideteam/vel_dist_contours/.  There are three new
directories vx_plane, vy_plane, and vz_plane.  Each directory has data for
three time periods (2 H+ and 2 Stops).  There are three plots for each time
period: the first plot is b-field coordinates, the second plot is GSE, and
the third is GSM.  The results for the VZ plane look okay.  There are some
problems with the other planes.

Dick West is setting up a test website for the contour software on the MSFC
site.  Go to the velocity distribution custom plot page and change the URL
perl script to lz_vdp_first_cntr.pl.  On page three of the options, the new
display options are the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th options.


In http://satyr.msfc.nasa.gov/tideteam/TIDE_info/, there is a file called 
missing.telemetry that lists all of the gaps in the TIDE telemetry files.
It gets updated several times a week.