The Debrief Blog

Notifying Changes to Debrief Now we will look at notifying changes to Debrief. As we've mentioned already, Debrief has been under continuous maintenance for 20-years now and, as you can imagine, has evolved considerably over that time. As it is open source and hosted on GitHub, anyone can take a copy of the main repository...

Creating a Debrief Issue If you find that Debrief isn’t behaving as it should then it’s possible that you’ve encountered a bug in the software. If you do, then you’ll need to let the Debrief team know about it so they can fix it. We report bugs in the software by raising what is called...

Obtaining Debrief Support Debrief is a capable, fast, intuitive and immensely powerful tool for maritime analysis. Indeed, as well as being used by many navies around the world, it’s also used by governmental and non-governmental agencies in many countries. Being open-source software, it is free to use; it works on multiple platforms; is well-documented with...

Accessing GitHub Accessing the Debrief GitHub repository is quick and easy to do. We must add that though you don’t have to sign-up to GitHub to access Debrief, we would recommend it as it makes everything much easier and faster. There are a number of reasons why we’d advise you to do this. One being...

Debrief is Hosted on Github Debrief is hosted on a platform/repository called GitHub. If you’re familiar with GitHub, that’s great; but if you’re not, then we have created some blog posts to help you get up to speed fast. I don't know about you, but whenever I start with something new I'm eager to get...

We’re launching a new capability for a broader set of analysis. In addition to running standalone  this tool will be seamlessly integrated into with Debrief. Why Do We Need a New Tool? Debrief traditionally enjoys a fixed data model, understanding precisely how to exploit, visualise and process each type of data.  Over the years analysts...

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...

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...

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...

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...