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author Daniele Nicolodi <nicolodi@science.unitn.it>
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2 <p>Based on the requirement that all results produced by the LTP Data Analysis software must be
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3 easily reproducible as well as fully traceable, the idea of implementing analysis objects (AO) as
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4 they are described in S2-AEI-TN-3037 arose.</p>
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6 <p>An analysis object contains all information necessary to be able to reproduce a given result. For
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7 example
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8 <ul>
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9 <li>which raw data was involved (date, channel, time segment, time of retrieval if data can be
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10 changed later by new downlinks)</li>
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11 <li>all operations performed on the data</li>
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12 <li>the above for all channels of a multi-channel plot</li>
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13 </ul>
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14 </p>
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15 <p>The AO will therefore hold
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16 <ul>
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17 <li>the numerical data belonging to the result</li>
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18 <li>the full processing history needed to reproduce the numerical result</li>
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19 </ul>
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20 </p>
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22 <p>The majority of algorithms in the LTPDA Toolbox will operate on AOs only (these are always methods
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23 of the AO class) but there are also utility functions which do not take AOs as inputs, as well as methods
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24 of other classes. Functions in the toolbox are designed to be as simple and elementary as
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