Instructions:

1. Install STK: Download STK 10, then install and license it on your computer (Free version).
2. Complete Training: Complete the STK Fundamentals.
a. Online at start.agi.com.
b. Locally in the STK Help under Get Started > STK Start Training > Fundamentals.
3. Complete the Certification Exercise: Complete all scenario steps and tasks for each section.
4. Submit your Certification Test: Upload the scenario to the AGI File Transfer Server.
5. Email: Send an email to certification@agi.com with the folder and scenario name.

Certification Exercise:
On October 28, 2011, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the central coast of Peru, destroying several homes
and injuring dozens. Due to the number of recurring damaging earthquakes in the area, future aircraft and
satellite systems are being considered to provide timely damage assessment to nearby cities. Use STK to
model these systems and evaluate various aspects of their missions. Historical earthquake data is provided
and will be the basis for this exercise.

Section 1: Model the World

Scenario steps:
1.
Create a new scenario starting at the time of the Earthquake, and ending five hours later.
Name: STK_Cert_FirstNameLastName e.g. STK_Cert_JohnSmith
Start: 28 Oct 2011 18:54:00 UTCG
Stop: 28 Oct 2011 23:54:00 UTCG
2.
The coordinates of the nearest runway to the epicenter are provided in the table below.
Create an Area Target called Runway based on these Lat / Lon values for the perimeter
points:
Latitude
Longitude
-12.1501 deg
-76.9957 deg
-12.1711 deg
-77.0026 deg
-12.1713 deg
-77.0022 deg
-12.1503 deg
-76.9953 deg
3.
To account for the local surroundings, add a 2 deg elevation angle constraint on the runway
Area Target.
4.
The city hit hardest by the 2011 earthquake was Ica, Peru. Insert Ica as a Place object (14.0639 deg, -75.7303 deg).
5.
Another hard hit city was Paracas, Peru. Insert Paracas as a Place object (-13.849 deg, -76.255
deg).
6.
Create a top-down view centered on Ica that can also view the Runway.

Tasks:
T1. Create a stored view of the Quake Region from scenario step 6 called Quake Region.
T2. Add the lighting intervals for Ica to the Timeline View.
T3. Create a Quick Report called Ica_LatLon of the latitude and longitude of Ica.

Section 2: Model the Aircraft System

Scenario steps:
7.
Create a new aircraft called CertAircraft.
8.
Use 3D object editing or enter the Lat / Lon values for the following waypoints:
1. Runway (Ignore the takeoff and landing and use a constant altitude of 10,000 ft)
2. Paracas
3. Ica
4. Runway
9.
Set each waypoints turn radius to 1 km.
10. Change the route color to white and make the route line width one level thicker.
11. Zoom to the aircraft and animate until the aircraft flies over Ica.
12. Change the aircraft 3D model to the uav.mdl model.
13. Use the coordinated turn attitude type to model the banking of the aircraft.
14. Create a sensor called AC_Camera which has a Rectangular 50x50 deg field of view.
Tasks:
T4. Save a csv file of a custom report called FlightSummary that includes these data providers:
Time (Set the units to EpSec)
LLA State-Fixed-Lat
LLA State-Fixed-Lon
LLA State-Fixed-Alt
Heading-Fixed-Azimuth
Heading-Fixed-Elevation
Heading-Fixed-Velocity
T5. Create an Access Quick Report called Aircraft_to_Runway to see if the aircraft has line-ofsight to the runway for its entire route.
T6. Create an STK video of the aircraft flying over Ica called AircraftView.wmv.
T7. Increase the aircrafts altitude so it maintains line-of-sight to the runway for the entire flight.
Extra Credit Task:
T8. Create a camera path with at least 2 keyframes that starts zoomed in on the aircraft then
zooms out to the route view.

Section 3: Model the Satellite System

Scenario steps:
Note: Retain the API commands used for steps 15 and 16. You will need these for Task 9.
15. Use STK Connect to create a Satellite named CertSatellite.
(Hint: Refer to the Task 3.1.1: Use Examples to Familiarize Yourself with Automating STK on
start.agi.com)
Also available as an installed Example HTML utility
i. C:\Program Files (x86)\AGI\STK 10\Data\HtmlUtilities\STK Automation\API Demo

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17.
18.
19.

Use STK Connect to change the Inclination of the Satellite to 15 deg.

(Hint: Search for SetState Classical in the STK Help)
Change the CertSatellite 3D model to the cubesat.mdl model.
Create a sensor called Sat_Camera which has a Simple Conic 60 deg field of view.
Zoom to CertSatellite and set the animation time to when the sensor first sees Ica.

Tasks:
T9. Add the connect command for steps 15 and 16 to the Scenario description.
T10. Create an STK snapshot of the satellite from scenario step 19 called SatView.bmp.
T11. Create an AER Quick Report called SatCamera_to_Ica to see how long and how far the
satellites camera is from Ica.
T12. Add Access Intervals to the Timeline View to determine which systems camera can see Ica
first and the longest.
Extra Credit Task:
T13. Create a quick report called USSats_to_Ica that shows a graph of the access intervals for all
of the US Earth observation satellites with optical sensors onboard that passed over Ica within
the first five hours of the earthquake.
(Hint: Refer to the video guidance for Task: Insert and Configure Objects on the Build
Scenarios page on start.agi.com.)

Section 4: Submit your Certification Test

Scenario steps:
20. Save your scenario.
21. Make sure all task output files (snaps, reports, video) are saved in your scenario folder.
22. Zip up your Scenario folder.
23. Post your zipped folder to the AGI File Transfer Server: https://files.agi.com.
Login ID: certtest
Password: 2MB953BT
This folder is a blind folder. Once you upload your file, you and others will not be
able to see it.
24. Send an email to certification@agi.com with the name of your scenario folder.