SITCOMTN-025: First-Look Analysis and Feedback Functionality Breakout Group Report

  • Keith Bechtol, Patrick Ingraham (chair), Tim Jenness, Tony Johnson, Simon Krughoff, Robert Lupton, Tiago Ribeiro, Yousuke Utsumi

Latest Revision: 2022-01-14

Deliverable 1: Use-cases

This page describes the standardized use-cases that were used in defining requirements and responding to the other charge questions. They will be referred (and linked) to throughout this report. The use-cases are separated into two categories. The first set describes the use-cases that exemplify functionalities required to perform on-the-fly analyses and alert users. The second set is specific to image display capabilities.

Use-cases for On-the-fly Analysis and Reporting

The use-cases for on-the-fly reporting are reported in the following subsections. They are designed to be as orthogonal as possible but overlap does exist. Increased detail is given where a unique requirement is going to result from the use-case. General capabilities and existing functionality is given significantly less attention.

Mount Jitter Measurement and Reporting

The Mount Jitter use-case demonstrates the calculation of mount data during an exposure and the production of a PSF for a quick data quality assessment if certain conditions are met (e.g. the mount shows an unacceptable amount of motion). Depending upon those results, a special display is updated and the observer gets alerted such that they can evaluate the issue and possibly change observing strategies. For the moment, the Jitter use-case is hosted on confluence.

Afternoon Calibration Generation

Calibrations are meant to be run every afternoon via the scriptQueue. The primary items addresed by this use-case are usage of the OCPS but also includes aspects captured in the section regarding Use-cases for Image Display Capabilities For the moment, the Afternoon Calibration Generation use-case is hosted on confluence.

Automated Fault Report Use-Case

This use-case is to emphasize that there will be a demand for running analyses and generating artifacts that are not associated with images. It also emphasizes the need to generate reports in a way that they can be easily linked/distributed. For the moment, the Automated Fault Report Use-Case use-case is hosted on confluence.

Active Optics System (AOS)

The AOS use-case captures many of the types of plots/figures that will need to be presented. It also captures some key functionalities that are required by the image display system. Much of this use-case was based on use-cases from the DECam Active Optics System. For the moment, the Active Optics System Use-Case use-case is hosted on confluence.

Observer Data Summary Feedback

Significant input was provided regarding the display of feedback to the observer, many of which were from the Scheduler. This was intentionally left for a later date and any specific architectural requirements that came out of this have been incorporated into the other use-cases. It appears that by implementing the on-the-fly analysis recommendations and using these results as part of a Bokeh app then all of the items in these use-cases can be implemented.

Use-cases for Image Display Capabilities

A formalized use-case was not developed in the same way as the others for Image Display Capability. However, repeatedly used examples for discussion and requirement generation are as follows:

  1. Displays used to stretch/scale to find a target, then calculating and applying an offset. This includes rotating the image to have north up, applying coordinate overlays, measuring distances etc.
  2. The viewing of calibration frames to look at flats etc.
  3. The viewing of on-sky images and adjusting as required to view low-surface brightness objects. This includes applying neccesary filters, stretches etc.