Space Radiation Measurement Reliability — project proposal and collaborators

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Hi everyone,

I’m starting a small project on how sampling, repeated timestamps, and gaps affect what we can conclude from RadLab data. I’d like to coordinate the work and find a few collaborators.

The first release and report are here. It checks 18 DosTel1/DosTel2 instrument-day files covering 21,500 readings. There are 58 timestamps with differing rate values; the code preserves them and leaves affected series out of integration until their meaning is clear. These may have a valid instrument explanation.

The package also includes a reusable SAA annotation-interval checker, synthetic examples, exact source queries, and tests. Its masking results compare numerical integrals of reported rates, not validated physical dose.

I’d welcome help with:

  • instrument and timestamp interpretation;
  • checking the data and reporting useful edge cases;
  • independently reproducing the results.

@james.casaletto @martin, would this be a useful scope to develop within the AWG? I’ve also offered validation help in the LEO Dosimetry thread and want to coordinate with existing work. I’m proposing a project here; formal subgroup recognition is still pending.

If you’re interested, reply with which part you’d like to help with. The short project brief has the starting scope.

Thanks,
Abhi

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Hi Abhi,

This is a great scope, happy to help. My background is AI/ML and bioinformatics with a focus on dataset engineering and validation, catching things like leakage, split issues, and metadata inconsistencies on other space biology projects I’m contributing to.

I’d like to help with independently reproducing the results and checking the data for edge cases, specifically the 58 timestamps with differing rate values you flagged. Happy to dig into whether there’s a pattern (specific instrument, specific time window) before assuming it needs a physical explanation, that kind of check is usually where I can add the most value.

Let me know how you’d like to divide this up.. Here’s my mail : hitaeshi25sehgal@gmail.com

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Thanks, Hitaeshi! I’ve emailed you the release and a suggested starting task: reproducing the results and checking the timestamp patterns. I’ll handle the code and instrument questions. We can keep findings in the GitHub issue, or email if that’s easier.

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