TrainingLevels

Training Skill Levels

Version 2

As of 12 Jan 2023

These define what skills a student should be able to perform for each training level. These are not intended to be exact definitions, but a place to start.

Level 1 - Introduction

• Requirement

  • 1/2 day training

• Goal

• Do LITHOS SPC and the most basic tasks with landmarks

• Type user

• Needs direct supervision

• All materials are given and directory fully setup

• Any difficulties or problems are supported by a more experienced user

• Specific Skills

• Create a landmark

• Add images

• Autoremove images

• Build template

• Select images

• Show which ones

• Correlate

• Align

• Autoalign

• Align with image

• Align with gradients

• Find height

Level 2 - Basic user

• Requirement

  • 3-4 days training

• Goal

  • Basic ability to do SPC's most key function lithos
  • Build global and region models densify, bigmap
  • Ingest new images: process_fits, register, autoregister
  • Increase resolution make_scriptT, map_coverage

• Type user

• SPC directory and configurations are provided

• Able to build non-troublesome regional or global DTM without support

• Does not change "standard" setting

• Can support operations under direct supervision of a fully-trained SPC user. Can run most key SPC functions, but requires help bridging gaps

• Uses pre-defined scripts (or blocks)

• Specific Skills

• Building regional DTMs

• Bigmap

• Showmap

• Lithos -> find

• Batch landmark generation

• Map_coverage

• Make_tilefile

• Make_scriptT

• Find_nofitT

• Export

• Batch AES iterations

• Duplicates

• Make_LMRKLISTX

• Make_scriptP

• Find_nofitP

• Ingesting images

• Autoregister

• Register

• Make_scriptR

• Make_scriptA

• Build Shape

• Densify

• Dumber

• CompareOBJ

• ICQ format

• Display

• Basic analysis

• Residuals

• Geometry

Level 3 - Experienced User

• Requirement

• Has 1+ months of practice on SPC

• Goal

• Run all SPC commands according to standard routines

• Can generate the DTM for a mission

• Type of User

• Need support for initial setup (don't mess with make_sumfiles.txt, INIT_LITHOS.TXT, but can install meta kernel)

• Can trouble shoot all of SPC-specific modeling functions

• Is able to build scripts for SPC (or blocks)

• Is able to answer own questions using SPC wiki

• Specific Skills

• Establishing and Verifying Connections

• Overlaps

• Limbs

• Detailed Analysis

• Residuals

• Geometry

• Sigmas

• Advanced landmark techniques

• Setting normal

• Options for solving the height

• Landmark resize

• Replacing topo with map or shape

• Troubleshooting problem landmarks

• Visualizing

• Surface_imager

• Imager_grid

• Imager_MG

• view_image_stereo/rgb

• view_maps

• view_shape (geometry.in)

• shape2map

Level 4 - Expert User

• Requirement

• Has run one or more entire projects

• Goal

  • Capable of executing all functions needed to run a SPC project, to include configuration, kernel management and navigation

• Type of User

  • No support needed for most any SPC configuration, problem or task
  • Understands the SPC components for conditioning solutions
  • Build SPC configuration files without support make_sumfiles.txt, INIT_LITHOS.TXT
  • Troubleshoots configurations

• Specific Skills

• Setup

• Init_lithos

• Make_sumfiles.txt

• Setup SPICE

• Spacecraft uncertanity

• Distortion field

• Blemishes

• Limber/Tyler

• Dynamics

• Coordinate frames

• Pole

• Omega

• Shift

• New_pole

• Weighting

• LMKWTS

• PICWTS

• Import

• Integration with navigation

Level 5 - Expert Developer

• Requirement

• Understands SPC math

• Writes in FORTRAN

• Goal

• Develops tools and fixes bugs for SPC

• Type of User

• Understands the internal structure of SPC's code and file format in order to make software changes

• Advanced troubleshooting

• Provides support and training

• Specific Skills

• Modifications to SPC code

• Make updates to process_fits/img

• Creating SUMFILES/NOMINALS using non-SPICE geometric data

• Error propagation