Project Overview:

Problem:

While investigating new science and algorithms in radar processing, research engineers frequently manipulate radar data streams with Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT), Reference Function Generators (RFG), and a plethora of other algorithm operations to see the affect the algorithm chain will have on these complex radar data sets. The existing technique for doing this has the research engineer using languages similar to C to define and integrate these operations. This results in the research engineers spending time diagnosing logic errors instead of understanding the impact of algorithm operations on the data set.

Solution:

Develop a graphical user interface for research engineers that allow them to define the algorithm chain to be researched, define a data set, and run the data through the chain to see the results.

Implementation:

The graphical user interface tool should be icon based, use drag and drop technology, and provide the capability to insert source code for each primitive operation. The tool should provide for future expansion by allowing new operations to be defined with their accompanying bitmap or gif icon and source code.