Generic Performance Evaluation Tool Implementation for an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer

Evaluation software for analyzing general analytical model applications utilizing MATLAB is presented in this thesis. The focus is to provide an interactive environment for the evaluation of model applications relating to an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer. The Generic Performance Evaluation Tool (GPET) was developed by researchers at Old Dominion University and NASA-Langley Research Center and was a NASA-Langley Research Center sponsored project. GPET is capable of producing a multitude of object-oriented input data for any number of individual model applications. The tool is also capable of creating user-defined input interfaces for the purpose of viewing and/or editing input object data, along with creating user-defined result interfaces for viewing evaluated object data in a textual format. Additionally, the tool can create various user-defined graphs to allow object data to be evaluated in a graphical format. With the model applications being designed within the context of the software, all of these capabilities provide the user with a very flexible tool for evaluating any analytical model application.