Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: Altitude Tracking Data Reduction This CompuRoc option is used to calculate actual rocket altitudes from two- -station tracking data. The method used for the calculation the "Geodesic Method" which is described in the October 1986 issue American Spacemodeling To use enter the values of baseline length, elevation, and azimuth angles in the appropriate text fields. (As in other dialog boxes press the <tab> key short-cut for jumping between fields.) Press the Compute button to display the results. Angles should be entered in dearees The units in which the baseline is entered will be the units of the calculated altitude Track closure S given as percent of altitude and is measure of the consistency of the given sight lines.
