Meteor science software ressources
Goal
Exhaustive list all meteor software ressources. If anything is missing by all means please add it here! :-)
Other software ressources
MUST USE astronomy librairies
- SPICE (NASA/JPL): available in C, Fortran, IDL and python
- Python: astropy
Multi-station meteor setup optimisation
Meteor Optical detection
Windows
- FreeTure (free)
- MetRec (free)
- UFOCapture (not free)
Linux
RaspBerry-Pi
- RMS: Croatia Meteor Network: acquisition and detection (from Vida et al. 2016) but better check the Global Meteor Network, including the wiki pages
Meteor Radio detection
Lunar Flash
- Windows: LunarScan (Freeware)
Meteor (optical) data exploitation
- R packages by Veljkovic
- Python: CMN_binViewer to organize CAMS data
Note: I have not found (yet) anything regarding radio data exploitation: please let me know if/when such tool is available
Meteor database
- IAU meteor database
- EDMOND
- IMO Visual Meteor Databse
- IMO Databases
- SonotaCo
- CAMS
- AMS Fireball Database and browser
Meteor trajectory and orbit computation (from optical observations)
Publicly available:
- Python: WesternMeteorPyLib: github page (Vida et al. paper in arxiv)
- Python: Determination of alpha-beta parameters (from Gritsevich method) at Desert Fireblal Network github (Samson et al. 2019)
- FreeWare: UFOAnalyzer and UFOOrbit: free but not open source
- Windows tools: Orbit determination Meteor Toolkit (Dmitriev et al. 2015) ; Entry track calculation program by E. Lyytinen (user guide)
Not publicly available:
- C/C++: Metal (R. Weryk, UWO, Canada)
- Python: ESA: MRG_MR (MetRec data handling, Py 2.7), mrg_core (useful routines) ; MRG_CILBO or MRG_Orbit (Koschny and Diaz, WGN 2002) and mrg_test_data (to test everything) ; Australia pipeline (NAME+REF) ; FRIPIPE, the FRIPON Pipeline (with a mix of C, as of 2020 - REF)
- Fortran: FIRBAL (Ceplecha, Borovicka, Spurny et al., Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic)
- IDL: MeteOrbit: the CABERNET pipeline (to be published) + F90 for optimization and accuracy (Vaubaillon, Atreya, Rudawska, Egal, Paris Observatory, France) ; SPARVM (P. Atreya, A. Christou, Armagh Observatory, N.Ireland, UK)
Meteor Spectroscopy
Publicly available:
- None that I know of: please let me know if/when this is not the case
Not Publicly available:
- Python: ESA MRG_spectrum (Rudawska et al. 2020)
Meteorite Dark flight and strewn field
Not publicly available:
- Fortran: FIRBAL (Ceplecha, Borovicka, Spurny et al., Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic)
- Python: FRIPIPE: the FRIPON pipeline (with a mix of C, as of 2020)
Numerical Simulations
Freely available
- ASMODEUS (Balaz et al., Comenius U., Slovakia): observation calibration
- Pintem: numerical integration of meteoroid streams in the Solar System by J. Vaubaillon 2005: not super-friendly version shared on request
- Particle distribution in meteoroid stream simulation (D. Kastinen)
- Space Object Radar Tracking Simulator, for radio obervations (D. Kastinen)
Not available
- SWARMS (Simulator for Wide Area Recording of Meteors from Space) from Bouquet et al. 2014
Miscalenaous codes
Last update Tuesday 23 June 2020