After 20 years of using the same colours, from 1st May 2015, Debrief gets a new color palette. Following the introduction of an alternative background colour set (Debrief’s background was always black before), the decision was made to introduce a new palette set of new colours. This was not only to help with a cleaner...
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Abstract Since last Autumn we’ve been working on a significant part of SATC (Semi Automatic Track Construction – see more here). The genetic algorithms in SATC are now quite mature, and do a good job of producing target tracks from bearing only data. But the analysts have had an ongoing chore – the need to...
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After several months of beta-testing the Natural Earth rendering has been merged into the master branch – and will now form part of the standard Debrief installation. All Debrief installations come with a small, low resolution Natural Earth dataset: But, it’s also possible to download and install two much higher resolution datasets (in a...
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Abstract A group of analysts were having trouble understanding the track followed by vessels in exercises from data collated from a number of sensors, They had a third party file converter for extracting data from Sonar S2087. When S2087’s file formats changed in 2014, the 3rd party converter became obsolete, and the analysts were stuck...
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Abstract This posting discusses a modification that was made to make Debrief’s calculated data more accessible to scientific users. Whilst Debrief has lots of tools for data analysis, it remains possible to export this data to a spreadsheet for external analysis. Customer MWC Backstory An analyst needed to product a custom XY chart to prove...
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