I-ALiRT - Coordinated coverage schedule

[laspsandoval]

Change Summary

Overview

I've been asked to start to plan for overlapping stations and creating schedules for them.

Updated Files

• generate_coverage.py
  • Handle stations so that they get priority. For example, we will always seek the most coverage from Kiel and inform other stations to not attempt to take data when Kiel is available.
  • Add capability for stations to fill in gaps if there is ever a DSN outage.

Testing

• test_generate_coverage.py

[greglucas]

Is this actually what you want? This means that the way this loop is defined will dictate the order and amount of time that the stations will cover. If there is 1-hour of overlap but the first station has 4 hours and the second station has 8 hours, that would set this to 4-hours for the first station every time and only 7-hours for the second station, but you might want that second station to take precedence because it has the longer block of time.

In general, I think this is OK right now but it should get some more thought to how we want to approach it. One other idea is to not block based on ground-stations but rather indicate how many stations could cover a specific area, so DSN can block, but the others just add to the coverage time.