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−  <p>Based on the requirement that all results produced by the LTP Data Analysis software must be
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−	easily reproducible as well as fully traceable, the idea of implementing analysis objects (AO) as
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−	they are described in S2-AEI-TN-3037 arose.</p>
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−  <p>An analysis object contains all information necessary to be able to reproduce a given result. For 
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−	example
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− 		<li>which raw data was involved (date, channel, time segment, time of retrieval if data can be 
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−	        changed later by new downlinks)</li>
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−  	    <li>all operations performed on the data</li>
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−		<li>the above for all channels of a multi-channel plot</li>
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−	</ul>		
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−  </p>
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−  <p>The AO will therefore hold
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−	<ul>
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− 		<li>the numerical data belonging to the result</li>
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−		<li>the full processing history needed to reproduce the numerical result</li>
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−	</ul>
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−  </p>
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−  <p>The majority of algorithms in the LTPDA Toolbox will operate on AOs only (these are always	methods 
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−  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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−  of other classes. Functions in the toolbox are designed to be as simple and elementary as 
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−	possible. </p>
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