In an upgrade of the Range Data Acquisition Computer (RADAC) software, a modular software object library was developed to implement required functionality for filtering of flight-vehicle- tracking data and management of tracking-data sources. (The RADAC software is used to process flight-vehicle metric data for real-time display in the Wallops Flight Facility Range Control Center and Mobile Control Center. This software is part of the Range Control/Range Safety System used to contain impacts of debris from flightvehicle operations.) The library includes implementations of tracking-data-editing and -filtering techniques that can be readily found in the literature and was constructed to facilitate future incorporation of implementations of other, more-exotic filtering techniques. A pragmatic technique is used to maintain statistics on differences between measurements and estimates of positions in order to compute a figure of merit for each radar, Global- Positioning- System, or inertial-navigation-system source of tracking data. An automatic source-qualification technique is implemented to enable optional replacement of a preexisting manual data-qualification function. The library was written in the C++ language and was designed to be hosted within an application program running on virtually any computing platform.

This program was written by R. James Lanzi and Donna C. Smith of Goddard Space Flight Center.

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