Hi, I am using Orekit for OD. I want to make measurement data(GPS Pointing Solution, PV) and check this before OD to compare with other program with the same data.
Is it possible to make measurement data applied bias, noise and etc,.
Make Measurement data
Hi raycarter,
It is possible to generate measurement data with biases, noise, tropospheric effect and everything you want. You can have a look at the estimation documentation, there is a section about the measurement generation architecture with a complete (and complex) class diagram.
Basically, you set up a Generator and add to it as many Scheduler that you want, each one being able to generate measurements of one type with one specific scheduling. As an example generating Range measurements from one ground station requires the station to see the spacecraft whereas generating PV measurements can be done continuously at some user-defined rate. When a Scheduler is built, it relies on a MeasurementBuilder (RangeBuilder, PVBuilder…) and you can add as many EstimationModifier instances to it as you want (just as you would add them to an ObservedMeasurement prior to the orbit determination itself) so there effects are included in the generated measurements. So you can add consider a bias by just adding a Bias instance to your measurement builder.
Orekit does not yet provide a generic NoiseModifier in the same spirit as Bias but it would clearly be a good addition (an easy one to make). Could you open a feature request in our issue tracker so we don’t forget about it? You can also contribute one if you want.