CUSF standalone predictor

Working on improving the Cambridge University Spaceflight landing predictor, used for predicting the flight path and landing location of latex balloons.

Install

The source for the prediction software itself is in pred_src and instructions for building it can be found there.

The predict/preds/ directory needs to have rwx access by the PHP interpreter and the predict.py python script. You will need to install the following python packages: pydap, numpy, json, simple-json.

Other than that, just clone this repo to a non web-accessible folder and create symlinks to the predict/ and hourly-predictions/ directories in the repo.

Information

A cronjob should be run to delete directories in the preds/ directory after a given number of days, perhaps 7 or 10.

The directory names are UUIDs comprised of an SHA1 hash of the launch parameters, and re-running predictions will overwrite data in the existing directory, rather than create a new one.

Credits

Credit as detailed in individual files, but notably:

• Rich Wareham - The new predictor and the hourly predictor system
• Fergus Noble, Ed Moore and many others

Jon Sowman 2010
http://www.hexoc.com
jon@hexoc.com