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Error_evaluation

Eric E Palmer edited this page Oct 23, 2026 · 1 revision

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Tools

Here are a list of error evaluation tools and ideas

  • formal uncertainty -- standard, bottom of the RESIDUALS.TXT. Contains the fit of all the landmarks and overlaps.
  • Best 80% of landmarks. Taken from ?
  • CompareOBJ
  • CompareOBJ TR
  • CompareOBJ --save-plate-error error
  • diffShape and gnuplot delta.gpi
  • SIGMAS.TXT plotted with sig.gpi
  • 2D heat map plot of number of images in landmarks
  • 2D heat map plot of residual errors for landmark
  • 2D heat map plot of residual errors for images
  • Evaluation of delta between truth S/C position and solved for S/C position: as an RMS
  • 2D plot of delta between truth S/C position and solved for S/C position.
  • Number of "issues" (or >>) in MAPINFO, PICINFO and RESIDUALS.TXT

To Do

  • Rebuild shape 3.7
  • Get RMS for each ZMAP
  • Run PreSurvey CompareOBJ

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Example (old)

  • formal uncertanity 0.5179

  • RMS 1.447

  • RMS w/ TR 1.046

  • DiffShape 1.771

  • Diff shape

  • Sigmas

  • Resolution of maplets

  • Number of images in a maplet

  • MAPINFO's residuals (col 9) for each maplet

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General notes about error -- as I try to figure out what is best to use

RESIDUALS . img x, y val val . overlap x, y val val . img x, y val val . The 1st column is a list of 1. IMAGEFILES included in the landmark 2. overlaps with other landmarks 3. Limbs . The 2nd column is the error in deltaX (# pixels in image resolution) . The 3rd column is the error in deltaY (# pixels in image resolution) . The 4th column is the magnitude of the error (combines deltaX and deltaY) . The 5th column is the error in physical units (km) . ......................... . name val . (Bottom) . Meter resolution, difference between predicted and actual . (Very bottom) . Observations how many things RMS Residual (m) (vector residual)


MAPINFO.TXT name ........ val val . col 9 formal uncertainty in meters of the landmark position . col 10 Flag . ">>" Flag showing landmarks that are below the pixel threshold. You might want to look at. . "**" Fewer than 3 images . col 11 Residual in meters of the nominals and position


PICINFO.TXT name ....... val dx, dy, dz dCx, dCy, dCz . Col 7 - Pixel residual (RMS in pixels)

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