Update adaptive gain control loop to handle interactions between burst detection and dynamic range control.
Internal doc updates & naming cleanups.
Stats tweaks.
This PR adds basic adaptive gain support, which adjusts SDR gain on the fly based on the noise & signal levels seen.
There are two control mechanisms:
Dynamic range control is enabled by the --adaptive-range option. This adjusts SDR gain to try to achieve a minimum dynamic range, regardless of the exact hardware in the RF path.
Burst (loud message) control is enabled by the --adaptive-burst option. This decreases SDR gain when undecodable loud messages are heard, allowing for better reception of nearby aircraft at the expense of range.
This is only the basic implementation - see the PR for remaining work to do.
The DF17/18 values are generally more trustworthy as they have full
CRC coverage. Errors in the CRC bits of a DF0/4/16/20 message can
result in the contained altitude being attributed to the wrong aircraft.
Magnitude conversion now happens immediately when sample data is
received, so there is no risk of newly received data clobbering old
data under CPU overload.
Track NUCp when we compute positions.
Do speed checks when we have an updated position with the same or worse NUCp
before accepting the new position. Don't do speed checks on new postions if
they improve NUCp - assume that the new position is better.
Include NUCp in aircraft.json
Gather stats on reasons for rejecting CPR data due to range/speed check failures.
Expire old positions if we have had no updates for 60 seconds.
Closes#16, closes#17.
Switch signalLevel back to a power measurement, don't put SNR in there.
But make it a 0.0 - 1.0 double so we're not scaling everywhere.
Adjust for the amplitude offset when calculating power.
Adapt everything else to the new scheme.
Oliver Jowett
Oliver Jowett