Importer for Merlin ASAC datafiles

[IanMayo]

🏆 Business value

• Ability to exploit the high volumes of track data in these large datafiles

⏰ Business priority

• Unclear for JW 21/2

We will typically require these items:
(Use convert to issue if it is to be delegated/assigned)

• 📛 Unique name for file format: Merlin ASAC
• 💾 Obtain sample data (attach if allowable): Pending
• 📔 Exploitation plan for Merlin ASAC
• 👷 Implementation
• ⭐ Testing & Acceptance

Exploitation plan

We have a strange exploitation plan for this format. The analysts receive packages of 5 datafiles, each for a different type of data. The types include:

• radar plot
• IFF
• AIS
• EW Squarks
• A N Other...

After a site visit to inspect the data, I believe the complexity of the formats, and the lack of a specification document for the data means I'm not confident of producing an unclass version of the data sufficient to give a reliable solution.

The plan for handling them is for clients to develop parser that converts files to Debrief format. The parser(s) will mature during JW 21/2. On completion we will take the parser and reverse-engineer datafiles to drive all paths through the parser.