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11 <title>Analysis Objects (LTPDA Toolbox)</title>
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15 "Presents an overview of the features, system requirements, and starting the toolbox.">
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21 <p style="font-size:1px;">&nbsp;</p>
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25 <tr>
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26 <td valign="baseline"><b>LTPDA Toolbox</b></td><td><a href="../helptoc.html">contents</a></td>
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29 "objects_working.html"><img src="b_prev.gif" border="0" align=
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30 "bottom" alt="Working with LTPDA objects"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=
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31 "ao_create.html"><img src="b_next.gif" border="0" align=
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32 "bottom" alt="Creating Analysis Objects"></a></td>
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36 <h1 class="title"><a name="f3-12899" id="f3-12899"></a>Analysis Objects</h1>
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37 <hr>
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41 <p>Based on the requirement that all results produced by the LTP Data Analysis software must be
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42 easily reproducible as well as fully traceable, the idea of implementing analysis objects (AO) as
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43 they are described in S2-AEI-TN-3037 arose.</p>
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45 <p>An analysis object contains all information necessary to be able to reproduce a given result. For
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46 example
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47 <ul>
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48 <li>which raw data was involved (date, channel, time segment, time of retrieval if data can be
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49 changed later by new downlinks)</li>
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50 <li>all operations performed on the data</li>
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51 <li>the above for all channels of a multi-channel plot</li>
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52 </ul>
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53 </p>
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54 <p>The AO will therefore hold
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55 <ul>
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56 <li>the numerical data belonging to the result</li>
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57 <li>the full processing history needed to reproduce the numerical result</li>
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61 <p>The majority of algorithms in the LTPDA Toolbox will operate on AOs only (these are always methods
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62 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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63 of other classes. Functions in the toolbox are designed to be as simple and elementary as
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64 possible. </p>
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91 <p class="copy">&copy;LTP Team</p>
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