tammojan / autormscams

Automate confirming meteor detections from RMS and uploading results to CAMS

autormscams

Automate confirming meteor detections from RMS and uploading results to CAMS

If you're running a RMS camera from the GlobalMeteorNetwork, and are in an area where also CAMS has good coverage (e.g. the BeNeLux), you may consider contributing meteor detections from your RMS camera to CAMS as well.

CAMS requires manual confirmation of all meteor detections. The tool to do these confirmations is CMN_binviewer. It goes through the detections in a given night (typically a subdirectory of RMS_data/ArchivedFiles) and asks for confirmation of each meteor.

AutoRMSCams automates going through many nights, and uploading the confirmed meteors to an FTP site. It currently is tweaked to use the directory layout as used on the CAMS BeNeLux FTP server. This tool is intended for Linux and macos systems; for Windows there are better CAMS alternatives.

To get started with this tool, edit the file config.ini to set some parameters.