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New Feature Pre-release: Use of scripting to update data

Posted January 15, 2019,
by Ian Mayo

After a couple of months of development, we're preparing the release of the new Debrief scripting ability This new capability is intended to enable Debrief Power Users to take on more advanced data manipulation tasks, including: Apply bulk changes to Debrief objects Import unexpected data-types from file Conduct ad-hoc calculations on Debrief data

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New Feature Release: Paste Rep from Clipboard

Posted September 27, 2018,
by Ian Mayo

We're coming to the end of another new feature. Most of the time Debrief data comes in digital form, captured on another system. But, occasionally it arrives in text form and has to be transcribed. Some users do this within Debrief, others perform the task in a text editor such as Notepad, then save the...

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New Feature: SVG Symbols

Posted September 21, 2018,
by Ian Mayo

Symbols are used to add value to analysis plots, through giving a visual indication of the vehicle type. In the past, the symbols have been hard-coded in Debrief, but now Debrief supports the provision of vectored symbols in the industry standard SVG format. The first set of symbols is shown below. Please feel free to...

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New Release: Sprint 4: Export to PPT

Posted August 3, 2018,
by Ian Mayo

With the conclusion of Sprint 4, the first major work package ("Epic" in Scrum language) is coming to completion, Export to PPT. In a multi-threaded package of work different members of the team have: designed PowerPoint master slides developed Python code to iteratively work through the various processes involved in transforming Debrief screen pixels into...

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New Feature Release: Better multi-static analysis capabilities

Posted August 3, 2018,
by Ian Mayo

To support the development of multi-static analysis capabilities, we've added the ability to introduce 3 actors in the frequency optimisation process: transmitter, subject, and receiver. See more in the video below:

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Sprint 3 - Debrief Lite

Posted July 20, 2018,
by Ian Mayo

Sprint 3 has largely been behind-the-scenes efforts to get ready for some upcoming significant features (especially Debrief Lite). An automated build/test of Debrief Classic is now performed on every commit, and it's now included in every release (rebadged as Debrief Lite). This has allowed us to de-risk the eventual builds of Debrief Lite proper. Debrief...

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New Version Release

Posted July 6, 2018,
by Ian Mayo

We're pleased to release version 3.0.440. The highlights in this release are the early technical demonstrators for video replay & lightweight tracks. Feedback on these is most welcome. It also includes the exporter (see wizard below) for data in the new UK track exchange format. Full details on the release here: GitHub Debrief

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Lightweight Tracks

Posted July 6, 2018,
by Ian Mayo

In today's release we're including a technical demonstrator for Lightweight Tracks. Some analysis tasks require the analysis of traffic passing through the exercise area. This could come from radar, AIS or IFF, and can be hundreds (or even thousands) of tracks. But, in traditional Debrief practice, all tracks sit at the top level of the...

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Two dimensional datasets

Posted July 11, 2017,
by Ian Mayo

Continuing from the previous article regarding support for non-time datasets, we're now going to consider how to collate two non-time indexed dataset to produce a 2D dataset that can be displayed as a heat map. Background The big picture objective is to view a two-dimensional plot containing the signal strength from a transmitter (tx) mapped...

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Datasets indexed by non-time data

Posted April 28, 2017,
by Ian Mayo

A shortcoming of the initial backend datastore for Limpet (learn more here: http://limpet.info) was that it could only store datasets that were indexed by time.  This had little impact, since Limpet was only being used for analysis of time-stamped data. But, for the second phase of support for multi-static analysis, Limpet must store data indexed...

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Exploring the Tactical Overview

Posted June 27, 2016,
by Ian Mayo

For the last year we've been steadily progressing Debrief's data analysis capabilities (read last year's introduction here), adding features in packages focussed on analysts' requirements. The first major realisation of this is in Debrief's new Tactical Overview display, which will be released later on today. This posting will give you an overview of the capability....

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Debrief Gets a New Look

Posted May 9, 2015,
by Ian Mayo

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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Natural Earth merged into Master Branch

Posted March 5, 2015,
by Ian Mayo

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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