SORADSIM

Space Object RADar SIMulator

This is a Python-based space object dynamics simulator aiming to help in designing ground-based radar systems for space debris studies.

Mission Planning Tool for Space Debris Studies with the MeerKAT Radar

I developed SORADSIM while working in the Radar Remote Sensing Group at the University of Cape Town. The master's dissertation Mission Planning Tool for Space Debris Studies with the MeerKAT radar presents the results created by the simulation scripts in this repo. These results were also published in a conference paper presented at the 2019 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf) in Boston, USA. The source files for the conference paper are in a public repo.

Prerequisites

SORADSIM was developed in Python 2.7, but it will run in Python 3 with minimal effort. Python libraries required:

1. numpy
2. math
3. scipy
4. matplotlib + basemap
5. pandas
6. datetime
7. pytz
8. aniso8601

Authors

• Ashiv Dhondea - Initial work - AshivDhondea

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details