Data Reduction Program Documentation ALTAIR Tape Read Package (Effective: April 1970)

Abstract

The series will document in detail the programs used in preparing the PRESS Operation and Data Summary (POD) Reports. Each POD is a presentation of data from a ballistic missile flight into the vicinity of the Kiernan Reentry Measurements Site (KREMS), situated on the island of Roi-Namur in the Kwajalein Atoll of the Marshall Islands. The data collected at KREMS is processed and a selected subset of the data -- perhaps one-tenth to one percent of the whole -- is transcribed to computer formatted magnetic tapes and processed through a library of programmed algorithms to produce the information displayed, either graphically or in tabular form, in PODs, and subsequently used for interpretation and analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 1971
Accession Number
AD0913117

Entities

People

  • Charles R. Berndtson
  • D. E. Nessman
  • R. H. French

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Circular Polarization
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Reduction
  • Department Of Defense
  • Frequency
  • Islands
  • Kwajalein Atoll
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Marshall Islands
  • Massachusetts
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Recording Systems
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.