[TowerTalk] tool to retrieve data and build HFTA profiles

[Jim Lux]

On 3/5/12 9:34 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
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> Since I manually generate my own files I just jump to the next distance
> that represents a noticeable difference in height.  HFTA simply assumes
> a linear incline/decline between data points so instead of creating data
> pairs (distance, terrain height) for fixed increments of distance I
> create data pairs for roughly fixed increments of height (although I
> generally use finer increments within a few wavelengths of the tower).
> I've never hit the 150 data point limit that way so I didn't even know
> that it existed.


i was thinking that once I run a profile to the edge of the dataset, I 
could go through and "prune" it with some simple algorithm. Obviously, 
you could eliminate ticks that vary less than some delta.  If someone 
has a clever way, you could try to fit straight lines to "collections" 
of points and replace them with the endpoints. But that's getting pretty 
fancy..

I'll be happy when I can just retrieve the files and generate the 
profiles in ANY form.