PSNSC_NCU requirements and notes (draft) --

NCU observations -- processing needs to be finished by early morning for MOPS to use for NEO

• obs_mode NCU -- new, possibly start end Oct 2016
  • 4 chunks (visits/returns? dither?) -- NCU1B...NCU4B; NCU1A...NCU4A
    • B=color set, sequence wgwrwiwz per chunk (8 targets each)
    • A=w-band only, wwwwwwww (8 targets each)
  • 8 targets (fields?) -- NCU1.1...NCU1.8; NCU2.1...NCU2.8; NCU3.1...NCU3.8 ; NCU4.1...NCU4.8 (chunk#.target#)
    • 4 above, 4 below ecliptic?
  • offset only dither (no rotation like MD/QUB/FSS) -- is the offset in the queue files yet? is the dither added to each visit?
  • exposures per field --
    • griz -- A: 1/chunk * 4 chunks = 4
    • w --
      • B: 4/chunk * 4 chunks = 16
      • A: 8/chunk * 4 chunk = 32
  • 4 sequential nights, ~6 hr/night?
  • exptimes wgriz: 60,120,120,120,180s
  • run sequence then? or is color done each night? where is the dither offset added, for each chunk?
    • night 1: NCU1B, NCU2B, NCU3B, NCU4B
    • night 2: NCU1A, NCU2A, NCU3A, NCU4A
    • night 3: NCU1A, NCU2A, NCU3A, NCU4A
    • night 4: NCU1A, NCU2A, NCU3A, NCU4A
  • comment string -- needs to be descriptive and easily parsed
    • B: NCU1B w4 NCU1.1 -- (chunk) (filter)(set number for w) (chunk#.target#) --
      • need to replace set number with (visit number) at end of all comments? is this tricky for generating/running queue? --
    • A: NCU1A NCU1.1 -- (chunk) (chunk#.target#)
      • add w for filter even though default? --
      • add (visit number) at end of all? is this tricky for generating/running queue? --
• chip->warp normal stdscience pantasks as with xSS products (ipp-20141024 tag)
• WSdiff runs in ~ippmops/stdscience_ws with modified ipp-20141024 ops tag to make uncompressed WSdiffs (like FSS)
  • larger volume, may need more nodes -- must be uncompressed for MOPS stamps since large data volume
• WSdiff published to normal MOPS datastore location?

Processing products -- czar needs to make sure all faults and issues are cleared daily (early morning) for NCU.* products

• chip-cam-warp -- NCU.nightlyscience -- nightly
• warp-stack diffims -- NCU.WS.nightlyscience -- nightly
• publishing of WSdiffs -- (need datastore location to use from MOPS) -- nightly
• manually done -- not czar responsibility
  • nightly stack -- NCU.nightlyscience -- nightly, manually done to avoid any poor images
  • stack-stack diffims -- NCU.SS.nightlyscience -- nightly, likely automatic possible once manual stacks made
• stamps -- TBD

Cleanup --

• chip -- 1 day?
• warp -- 2 days (no specific requirement?)
• WSdiff -- 1 day? uncompressed so likely will need to limit and just do updates for stamps
• publishing WSdiff catalog bundles --
• pstamp -- manual cleanup like other ps_ud_%

Tasks to do --

• verify w-band stacks okay along ecliptic for opposition end October
• check processing rate/nodes for WSdiffs
• MOPS interested in SSdiff?
• publishing location for WSdiff by MOPS preference -- IPP-MOPS-TEST or IPP-MOPS-WS -- unique set so likely normal location