selena1 / ionospheric-ray-tracer

Simulate the behavior of radio waves in planetary ionospheres by applying a ray tracing method

ionospheric-ray-tracer

Simulate the behavior of radio waves in planetary ionospheres by applying a ray tracing method

Quickstart

Run the main application in src/core/main.cpp to start the simulation.

prerequisites

This project makes use of the google test library gtest as well as the multithreading lib boost/thread. Gtest is included in the source but it is required to have boost/thread installed locally. See for more information on the boost libraries: boost getting started

Installation

The following section treats how to prepare your system for this package if you want to compile it from source.

Linux (Ubuntu 14.04)

1. Install git if you haven't already:

sudo apt-get install git

2. Ensure that the required build packages and libraries are installed. The minimum required gcc is gcc 4.9.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ gcc python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libstdc++

Install the boost libraries. The minimum required version is libboost-1.55.

sudo aptitude install libboost-all-dev

The next step is to download and compile the json library. Note that the version number of gcc might vary on your system. In the example below I used gcc-4.9.2:

sudo apt-get install scons
git clone https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp.git
cd ~/jsoncpp
scons platform=linux-gcc
sudo cp libs/linux-gcc-4.9.2/libjson_linux-gcc-4.9.2_libmt.so /usr/lib