allskycam4oleodl 0.2.1

Tracking software for OLEODL using Allied Vision cameras. Developed alongside DLR-OP-IKN.

All Sky Camera System for Optical Low Earth Orbit Satellite DownLinks

This project has been developed in colaboration with DLR-IKN in Oberpfaffenhofen as a part of my Bachelor Thesis for tracking and assesing the quality of OLEODL as a validation tool for an Optical Ground Station based on Allied Vision Cameras.

See also

• AllSkyCam4OLEODL documentation for a the full docuemntation of the package.
• VmbPy GitHub for the GitHub branch of the Allied Vision API.
• VmbPy Documentation for the documentation of the the Allied Vision API.

---

Installation

Vmbpy API

To use this project the an installation of Vimba X and Python >= 3.7 are required. A ready-to-install packaged .whl file of VmbPy can be found as part of the Vimba X installation, or be downloaded from our github release page. The .whl can be installed as usual via the pip install command.

NOTE
Depending on the some systems the command might instead be called pip3. Check your systems Python documentation for details.

pip install './data/vmbpy-1.0.4-py3-none-any.whl[numpy,opencv]'

AllSkyCam4OLEODL package

Git needs to be installed first.

1. Install the Pypi package

pip install allskycam4oleodl

2. Clone the AllSkyCam4OLEODL git repository

git clone https://github.com/Ikerald/AllSkyCam4OLEODL.git

3. Navigate to the AllSkyCam4OLEODL sub-directory

cd AllSkyCam4OLEODL/

4. Here you can manually install the Vmbpy API

pip install './data/vmbpy-1.0.4-py3-none-any.whl[numpy,opencv]'

Usage

from project_name import BaseClass
from project_name import base_function

BaseClass().base_method()
base_function()

$ python -m project_name
#or
$ project_name