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Work Package 6: Performanc e Specification

Work Package 6: Performanc e Specification. Ian McCrea. Main Aims. Revisit the Performance Specification produced in the FP6 Design Study stage to take account of the Design Study findings and incorporate any ideas which have emerged since the end of the Design Study (Task 6.1).

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Work Package 6: Performanc e Specification

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  1. Work Package 6:Performance Specification Ian McCrea

  2. Main Aims • Revisit the Performance Specification produced in the FP6 Design Study stage to take account of the Design Study findings and incorporate any ideas which have emerged since the end of the Design Study (Task 6.1). • Produce a handbook of measurement principles, setting out how the system performance can be optimised by the application of innovative concepts in signal processing, coding, data handling and data analysis, which will be used thereafter as a framework for software and experiment development in EISCAT_3D (Task 6.2). • Update and maintain the Performance Specification so that it provides a continuing resource for all of the technical work packages to determine details of acceptable system performance and hence define their required outputs (Task 6.3).

  3. What does this really mean? • WP6 is the most important work package, because... • The PSD describes what we want to build • WP6 interacts with all WPs and binds their work into a coherent vision • It will summarise what we want to build and how!

  4. Who is involved? • Total Effort: 34 months • EISCAT: 4 months • Oulu (SGO): 28 months • STFC (RAL): 2 months • Frank Lind (TAC chair) • Tom Grydeland, Other TAC members • All project participants.... • Duration: Month 1 to 48

  5. Milestones and Deliverables • Month 6: • Initial version of the Performance Specification Document (D6.1) • Initial version of Measurement Principles Handbook (D6.2) • Month 12: • Next version of PSD, consistent with Science Case and Measurement Principles Handbook (D6.3)

  6. Milestones and Deliverables • Month 24 • Second annual release of the PSD (D6.4) • Month 36 • Third annual release of the PSD (D6.5) • Month 48 • Final version of the PSD (D6.6) • Final version of the measurement principles handbook (D6.7)

  7. Progress so far.... • First version of Measurement Principles Handbook on course (Markku reported yesterday) • Performance Specification Document hardly started yet • Structure on the web • Not one document but three!

  8. A: Concept Document 1 Introduction 2 EISCAT 3D : A Digital Geospace Radar Array 3 The Most Science for the Aperture 4 Science as a Service to Society 5 Federated Ownership and Involvement 6 Affordable Construction and Operation Costs 7 Clear Paths for Growth in Capability 8 Minimum Barriers to Innovation 9 Time as the Most Crucial Resource 10 The User Interface is the Instrument 11 Simplicity Wherever Possible or Uncertain 12 Flexibility and Adaptability Before Perfection 13 Production Quality Implementations 14 Open Hardware and Software 15 Build to Last, Inspire, and Teach 16 Into the Future : Beyond EISCAT 3D

  9. B: System Design Document • Detailed design philosophy document • Facilitates communication between scientists, engineers and other team members • Accessible to all project participants • Defines level at which system choices and trade-offs can be made • 65 sections, covering all aspects of system design • Scope to re-use many elements from FP6 study • Much new material (and new thinking needed) • Will incorporates elements from all the technical work packages.

  10. C: Engineering Specification Document How to actually build the radar....... 1: Introduction 2: Engineering architecture 3: Radar array 4: Radar site architecture 5: Receive antenna array elements 6: Transmit antenna array elements 7: Array group architecture 8: Array group user interface 9: Software radar system 10: Production signal processing chains 11: Data flow and management 12: Virtual observatory 13: Radar support infrastructure

  11. Summary • Very challenging work package • Critical to success of the project • Good start on the measurement handbook • Too slow start on the PSD • Effort probably underestimated • Will need input from all PP participants • Includes work beyond the PP activities

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