gr-satnogs/include/satnogs/waterfall_sink.h

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/* -*- c++ -*- */
/*
* gr-satnogs: SatNOGS GNU Radio Out-Of-Tree Module
*
* Copyright (C) 2017,2019 Libre Space Foundation <http://libre.space>
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#ifndef INCLUDED_SATNOGS_WATERFALL_SINK_H
#define INCLUDED_SATNOGS_WATERFALL_SINK_H
#include <satnogs/api.h>
#include <gnuradio/sync_block.h>
namespace gr {
namespace satnogs {
/*!
* \brief This block computes the waterfall of the incoming signal
* and stores the result to a file.
*
* The file has a special header, so plotting tools can reconstruct properly
* the spectrum.
*
* \ingroup satnogs
*
*/
class SATNOGS_API waterfall_sink : virtual public gr::sync_block {
public:
typedef boost::shared_ptr<waterfall_sink> sptr;
/**
* This block computes the waterfall of the incoming signal
* and stores the result to a file.
*
* The file has a constant sized header of 52 bytes, so that plotting tools can
* reconstruct properly the spectrum.
*
* The structure of the header is the following:
* - A 32 byte string containing the timestamp in
* ISO-8601 format. This timer has microsecond accuracy.
* - A 4 byte integer containing the sampling rate
* - A 4 byte integer with the FFT size
* - A 4 byte integer containing the number of FFT snapshots for one row
* at the waterfall
* - A 4 byte float with the center frequency of the observation.
* - A 4 byte integer indicating the endianness of the rest of the file. If
* set to 0 the file continues in Big endian. Otherwise, in little endian.
* The change of the endianness is performed to reduce the overhead at the
* station.
*
* @note All contents of the header are in Network Byte order! The rest
* of the file is in native byte order, mainly for performance reasons.
* Users can use data of the header to determine if their architecture match
* the architecture of the host generated the waterfall file and act
* accordingly.
*
* The file continues with information regarding the spectral content of the
* observation.
* Each waterfall line is prepended with a int64_t field indicating the
* absolute time in microseconds with respect to the start of the waterfall
* data (stored in the corresponding header field).
* The spectral content is stored in $FFT$ float values already converted in
* dB scale.
*
* @param samp_rate the sampling rate
* @param center_freq the observation center frequency. Used only for
* plotting reasons. For a normalized frequency x-axis set it to 0.
* @param rps rows per second
* @param fft_size FFT size
* @param filename the name of the output file
* @param mode the mode that the waterfall.
* - 0: Simple decimation
* - 1: Max hold
* - 2: Mean energy
* @return shared pointer to the object
*/
static sptr
make(float samp_rate, float center_freq,
float rps, size_t fft_size,
const std::string &filename, int mode = 0);
};
} // namespace satnogs
} // namespace gr
#endif /* INCLUDED_SATNOGS_WATERFALL_SINK_H */