Software

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Several software packages have been developed in order to optimize the performance of the detection system and to make their operation fully automatic. Besides, other computer programs have been developed to allow for data analysis and reduction. In fact, software engineering is one of the most active areas in our observatory since the first meteor detection systems setup by Prof. Madiedo started operation in 2006. You can find a brief  description of some of these software packages below.

SAMIA

This software is the manager of the SWEMN fireball and meteor digital database. It employs artificial intelligence (AI) modules.

Thus, one important and pioneering step taken in the framework of the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) has been the development in 2021 of a digital and interactive database containing meteors recorded and analyzed by the SMART project since this survey was started in 2006. This is the first digital database ever developed for meteors recorded over the Iberian Peninsula and neighboring areas, and it stores very comprehensive information about these events. The database is managed by means of the SAMIA software, which includes artificial intelligence (AI) modules to exploit this new resource. SAMIA can be very useful for different purposes. For instance, this can be employed to identify new meteor showers, or to provide valuable information about poorly-known meteoroid streams. Other interesting applications are related to the identification of fireball streams, specially those that could be associated with meteorite-producing events or with bright lunar impact flashes.

 

AMALTHEA

This software package performs most of the tasks related to data processing and analysis:

-Astrometry.

-Photometry.

-Atmospheric trajectory calculation.

-Orbital parameters calculation.

-Dark flight analysis and impact point calculation for meteorites.

-Analysis of meteor spectra to determine chemical compositions.

 

CHIMET

Software for the analysis of meteor emission spectra. The main tasks performed by ChiMet are:

-Spectra calibration.

-Identification of emission lines and bands.

-Determination of meteor plasma parameters (temperature, electron density, etc.).

-Analysis of the evolution with time of meteor plasma.

 

ORAS (ORbital Association Software)

This is one of the latest tools that has been developed. With the data provided by AMALTHEA this sofware helps us to determine the parent bodies of the meteoroids we have recorded.

METEOR ECHO RECORDER

This is the control and data analysis software for our forward-scatter system.

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