Between the papers

Planning, ECSS, projects, vision, students, productivity, ???


Daniel Kastinen

Credit: Me :D

Between the papers?

I started looking for a seminar topic... Have I been unproductive?

Between the papers!

Todays seminar:

  • Smörgåsbord of interesting activities that did not (yet) produce a "unit of science"
  • Excuse to talk about my research planning and do a different kind of seminar
  • Why is there this gap? What is productivity?

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
Research plan

Meteors and space objects

This topic:

  • Meteors, meteoroids, dust
  • Space debris
  • Asteroids and comets
  • Solar system dynamics
  • Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
Research plan

"All the 'small' solid stuff around Earth that affects us"

Research plan

Meteors and space objects

Research goal categories

  • The extraterrestrial mass input into Earths atmosphere
  • The phenomenological model of a meteor
  • Meteoroid and dust streams in the solar system
  • Meteoroid orbit distribution at Earth
  • Meteoroid and dust properties
  • Dust generation models
  • Temporarily Earth captured near-Earth objects: minimoons
  • Hazardous object population
  • Asteroid and comet properties
  • Dynamics around small bodies
  • Atmospheric dynamics in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
  • Accurate model of the space debris environment
  • Dual use systems and optimal scheduling
  • Object property determination from measurements
  • The interaction between Earths atmosphere and space debris
  • Fragmentation modelling
Research plan

Meteors and space objects

Research goal categories

  • The extraterrestrial mass input into Earths atmosphere
    • What is the total mass input derived from direct input measurements?
    • What is the material composition of the input mass?
    • What are the dominant sources of mass input?
    • ...
Research plan

Meteors and space objects

Projects (ongoing, planned, ideas)

Research plan

Meteors and space objects

Projects (ongoing, planned, ideas)

  • First EISCAT_3D meteor measurements
  • MU radar meteor head echo database
  • Meteoroid fragmentation with radars
  • Meteoroid stream simulation using advanced statistics
  • ...
Research plan

The result!

Research plan

Worth it? Yes!

Advantages to writing it down:

  • Gives a direct overview
  • Forces you to think
    • Does this project contribute to my goals?
    • Am I utilizing my instruments?
    • Which software should i update first?
    • ...
  • You can show it to others
  • Identifies important components
  • Removes the mental strain of remembering everything

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
  • AllSky7 cameras = New capabilities
New capabilities

AllSky7 meteor camera first light

Video: AMS226 @ IRF roof - DK

New capabilities

AllSky7 meteor camera first light

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
  • AllSky7 cameras = New capabilities
  • ESA project work package = Literature review
Literature review

Cleaning up hard target signal analysis code

S1-SC-17 Debris Size Characterisation using RCS data (2023--ongoing)

Strange results from simulations + analysis!?!?

So of course I re-invented the wheel

$$ |a_M| \leq \frac{\pi}{M! \tau^{M-1} \Delta^{M}} $$ $M=1$ Is Nyquist criterion

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
  • AllSky7 cameras = New capabilities
  • ESA project work package = Literature review
  • ReseArch Infrastructure Network = Enabling science
Enabling science

    Master thesis project: Calum Lonie

    Communication protocol + server/client implementations for instruments

  • Automatic campaigns/measurements
  • Measurement coordination
  • Enabling value-added functions
  • (soon on IRF GitLab/pypi)™
  • ...

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
  • AllSky7 cameras = New capabilities
  • ESA project work package = Literature review
  • ReseArch Infrastructure Network = Enabling science
  • Leader new ESA project = NOSTRA & "What the heck is ECSS?"
NOSTRA & "What the heck is ECSS?"

NOrdic Space Tracking RAdar: NOSTRA

  • Dedicated Space Surveillance and Tracking radar
  • Tri-static MIMO
  • ESA ITT for "Phase 0":
    IRF leading proposal with NO & FI
NOSTRA & "What the heck is ECSS?"

NOrdic Space Tracking RAdar: NOSTRA

  • We will do performance simulations using "sorts" (our package)
DELIVERABLES:
...
DD-05 Software documentation according to AD-01
...
NOSTRA & "What the heck is ECSS?"

AD-01: Generic tailoring of ECSS E-40 and Q-80 for engineering design, analysis software

NOSTRA & "What the heck is ECSS?"

AD-01: Generic tailoring of ECSS E-40 and Q-80 for engineering design, analysis software

Required Documents

  • Software system specification (SSS) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex B
  • Software design document (SDD) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex F
  • Software configuration file (SCF) - ECSS-M-ST-40 Annex E
  • Software release document (SRelD) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex G
  • Software user manual (SUM) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex H
  • Software source code and media labels
  • Training material
  • Software unit test report
  • Software integration test report
  • Software verification report (SVR) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex M
    • Acceptance test report
    • Installation report
  • Software reuse file (SRF) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex N
  • Software problem reports and nonconformance reports
    • Maintenance records
    • SPR and NCR - Modification analysis report - Problem analysis report - Modification identification
    • SPR and NCR - User's request record software product - Post operation review report
  • Software development plan (SDP) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex O
    • Software verification plan (SVerP) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex I
    • Software validation plan (SValP) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex J
    • Software integration test plan (SUITP) - ECSS-E-ST-40C Annex K
    • Software unit test plan (SUITP) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex K
    • Acceptance test plan
    • Software review plan (SRevP) - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex P
    • Software configuration management plan - ECSS-E-ST-40 Annex A
    • Training plan
    • Interface management procedures
    • Procurement data
    • Maintenance plan
    • Migration plan and notification (SDP, SDD, SUM, SRelD)
    • Retirement plan and notification (SDP, SDD, SUM, SRelD if needed)
    • Software operation support plan
    • Software product assurance plan (SPAP) - ECSS-Q-ST-80 Annex B
    • Audit plan and schedule (if applicable)
    • Procedures and standards (Per AD list of SoW)
    • Modelling and design standards
    • Coding standards and description of tools
    • Software problem reporting procedures
NOSTRA & "What the heck is ECSS?"

AD-01: Generic tailoring of ECSS E-40 and Q-80 for engineering design, analysis software

Required Documents

My takeaways:

  • "Yes we do everything" = HELP!?
  • "We are using _this_ tailoring" = Reasonable
  • We should have IRF-ECSS tailoring templates?
    Project management, software & ?
  • Non-compliance is fine, but know in what way

I.e. We should tell them what we will do in terms of ECSS

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
  • AllSky7 cameras = New capabilities
  • ESA project work package = Literature review
  • ReseArch Infrastructure Network = Enabling science
  • Leader new ESA project = What the heck is ECSS? & NOSTRA
  • Rebound Player = Outreach & new technology

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Rebound Player = Outreach & new technology

    • Internship: Louis-Hendrik Barboutie & Leo Tamminen

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
  • AllSky7 cameras = New capabilities
  • ESA project work package = Literature review
  • ReseArch Infrastructure Network = Enabling science
  • Leader new ESA project = What the heck is ECSS? & NOSTRA
  • Rebound Player = Outreach & new technology
  • Conferences = Contacts & visibility
  • Associate editor = Better publications (i hope)
    • [EGU journals plug!]
    • Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI)

Activities

Things you might find interesting

  • Now what? = Research plan
  • AllSky7 cameras = New capabilities
  • ESA project work package = Literature review
  • ReseArch Infrastructure Network = Enabling science
  • Leader new ESA project = What the heck is ECSS? & NOSTRA
  • Rebound Player = Outreach & new technology
  • Conferences = Contacts & visibility
  • Associate editor = Better publications (i hope)
  • ISSI group = Involved in new research area
  • VR & SNSA applications = New PhDs? Force multiplier

So what's this "gap" about?

  • Its kinda not a "gap" at all!
  • Time-span of these are ~years-decades, not months
  • Project overhead is not linear!

      • Consider the following: you manage reports

    1. Report stakeholders want weekly updates
    2. Context switching & time bookkeeping
    3. Each report takes 35h to finish + 5h overhead / week

      4. Working on 1 report per week = 1 report delivered per 1 week

      Working on 5 reports per week = 5 reports delivered per 23 weeks

    I optimized with task-manager [pter], did auto-pilot schedule
    crammed meetings, wrote notes and wikis...

    But the influx was too great

What is productivity?

  • Time spent at a desk? Papers? h-index?
    Number of students? Societal impact?
    • We don't really know
    "Its a feeling when you look at a chunk of a career"
  • People deemed productive seem to
    1. Do less things at once
    2. Work at a natural pace
    3. Obsess over quality

    (Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout - Cal Newport)

  • Tip: Go from push to pull
  • Tip: Time is valuable, treat it that way

Thank you for your attention!

Perseid Meteor Shower 2023 ( youtube @MagicCarpetMedia )