Coverage Analysis with Open Source Tools

Part 2 - IEEE Broadcast Technology: Fall 2015

URLs referred to in the article:

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)  Global Digital Elevation Map V2:

https://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data :

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

Airbus Defence & Space "WorldDEM":

http://www.geo-airbusds.com/worlddem/

GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library:

http://www.gdal.org/

Processing coverage data arrays with Python and Numpy

The following Python program reads signal strength indexed by latitude and longitude from a text file and puts the data into a Numpy array with axis 0 = latitude index and axis 1 = longitude index as explained in the IEEE Broadcast Technology magazine. Variables are set from a "study" file, described later.

SplatProcess.py

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BTS.study (example set-up file)

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Questions, additions or comments?