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Welcome to the SPICE Tutorials

Welcome to the SPICE Tutorials. July 2013. Objectives. For you Provide an overview of the entire SPICE system Provide a sense of the purpose and uses of SPICE Provide an introduction to the use of primary SPICE components Provide examples of how to use SPICE software and data files

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Welcome to the SPICE Tutorials

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  1. Welcometo theSPICE Tutorials July 2013

  2. Objectives • For you • Provide an overview of the entire SPICE system • Provide a sense of the purpose and uses of SPICE • Provide an introduction to the use of primary SPICE components • Provide examples of how to use SPICE software and data files • Provide some insight into conventions and common problems • Provide a variety of “hands-on” programming exercises • Provide a peek at new capabilities being worked on or considered • Familiarize you with available SPICE resources • For NAIF (if these tutorials are being seen in a class setting) • Get student’s feedback on today’s SPICE system • Especially what’s hard to understand, hard to use, missing • Get student’s suggestions for further development of SPICE • Get student’s suggestions for improvements to NAIF support of the space science community Welcome to tutorials

  3. Scope • Broad coverage • Begins at a high level, but quickly drills down to details • Touches on many SPICE-related topics that could be of interest to science and engineering teams • Depth of discussion varies somewhat amongst topics • Provide information for FORTRAN, C, IDL and MATLAB programmers • Some tutorials have important material provided in a “Backup” section: you should read those charts too! • Some topics are addressed rather little or not at all • Kernel production • Archiving SPICE data Welcome to tutorials

  4. Repeated Material • Some topics will be repeated in two or more tutorials • We’re not trying to bore you, but… • we don’t wish to assume people will read all of the tutorials at the same time • we think some items are sufficiently important to mention them more than once Welcome to tutorials

  5. Your SPICE Odyssey Begins Here … but it does take a modest amount of effort to learn enough about SPICE to begin to use its features with good success. It helps to have some math skills, some innate sense of spatial orientation, and some familiarity with your computer’s operating system, a code editor, and a compiler or Integrated Development Environment (IDE). •••• Welcome to tutorials

  6. SPICE is a Large Product • The generic SPICE Toolkit contains: • over 1000 individual APIs (also called “modules” or “subroutines”), compiled into a library • most customers use only a handful of these • about 23 subsystem reference documents • about 13 utility and application programs (with User Guides) • several “cookbook” tutorial programs (with User Guides and data) • several other documents • Don’t let the size of the Toolkit bother you… … just work your way into it bit by bit. • Hundreds of people like you are using this code successfully Welcome to tutorials

  7. The NAIF Team at JPL Nat Bachman Chuck Acton Boris Semenov Ed Wright Welcome to tutorials

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