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AGI's downloadable PDF lessons courses are a collection of exercises that provide hands-on experience with AGI's products. Download an entire week of training materials (files and/or documents), or search for individual exercises.

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STK

STK Fundamentals

	Description:	STK Fundamentals Training is a collection of exercises that provide a basic understanding of the use of STK. It will familiarize the first-time user with the AGI Graphical User Interface (GUI); introduce them to some of the various land, sea, air and space objects; their associated properties, and tools; and leave them with a basic understanding of the capabilities that are a part of the Satellite Tool Kit (STK) software suite.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	6 hrs
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 5 MB No additional files required for this exercise

Full Comprehensive Week

	Description:	STK Comprehensive Training is a collection of instructor-led exercises that provide hands-on experience with a variety of the features and functions on which STK is built. This course will teach you not only how to analyze the land, sea, air, and space objects and their environments, but how to assess and adaptively plan operations using quantitative analysis of the positions and attributes of thousands of assets. This course will focus on the core modules that are commonly used to perform various types of analysis.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	30 hrs
	Required Licenses:	STK Expert Edition STK/Astrogator STK/Conjunction Analysis Tools (CAT) STK/Scheduler

	Manual only (.pdf) - 25 MB Additional files (.zip) - 755 MB

Individual Exercises

Basic Exercises

When can I spy on Washington from a Molniya satellite?

	Description:	Model a STK scenario that allows you to calculate a simple line-of-sight access between a spacecraft traveling in a Molniya orbit and Washington, D.C so that you can tell at what points along the spacecrafts orbit it can see Washington, D.C.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 98 KB

Where is the Space Station now?

	Description:	Model a scenario that allows you to calculate a simple line-of-sight access between "MyTown" and the International Space Station (ISS) that considers lighting and timing limitations.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 99 KB

How is the reception on my satellite radio outside the continental US?

	Description:	Model a scenario representing your travels from Monterey to Nagasaki. This will include two separate trips--the trip from Monterey to San Diego, and then from San Diego to Nagasaki (including a momentary port on the Big Island of Hawaii), and then determine if your new XM radio will work for the duration of your trip.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 57 KB

Can I detect a rogue aircraft enroute from Havana to Cape Canaveral?

	Description:	Model a scenario that allows you to consider and compare all of your system options. Simulate an aircraft traveling from Havana to Cape CanaveralWhite Sands and determine which system detects penetration of the sensitive airspace earlier and more effectively.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 111 KB

How many satellites must I access to communicate with the GPS network?

	Description:	Model a scenario that can be used to determine if and when you have access to at least four (4) members of the GPS network from your aircraft. Your scenario must consider the signal receiving and minimum coverage limitations outlined.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 205 KB

How will I take pictures of Mogadishu and relay them in near-real-time?

	Description:	Model a scenario that can be used to determine when you can take near-real-time images of Mogadishu in the daylight over the next two weeks using the cameras attached to SPOT 2, 4, and/or 5. After you take the images, you need to use a targeting and data relay system to downlink to a site in the SPOT network, uplink to one of the TDRS satellites, and then downlink to your White Sands, NM site.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 129 KB

Will the local terrain impact my ground based radar?

	Description:	Build an STK scenario that models a ground based radar and considers the mountainous terrain of Northern Afghanistan. Use that scenario to determine if your existing ground based radar will provide adequate warning in the event of an attack or if the local terrain is interfering with your radar.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 81 MB

Can I communicate with my fire fighting crews in the field?

	Description:	Build an STK scenario that models the blue arrow communications flow of a network. This part of system is designed to keep track of firefighters while they are in the field by communicating firefighter position information to satellites that relay that information to headquarters in Castle Rock, Colorado.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	80 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 4 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

How can I recreate the Venus transit of 2004?

	Description:	Build an STK scenario that models a recreation of the rare Venus transit of 2004 and will illustrate how to prepare to view such an event in the future. The next Venus transit will be in 2012.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 293 KB

Where on Earth will three different satellites provide simultaneous coverage?

	Description:	Use STK/Coverage to model and analyze the quality and quantity of coverage provided by the Earth observing payloads attached to satellites in three different orbits. Using that model, you will determine if, when and for how long two or more of the satellites can survey the surface of the Earth during daylight hours.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Coverage

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 9 MB

Will incorporating aerial water drops improve my fire fighting model?

	Description:	Build an STK scenario that models an aircraft that takes off from Peterson AFB, flies to a specified location within the Hayman burn area, circles that point, and makes a water dump on the fire. Analyze how incorporating such an aircraft would affect the response time of the system.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

How do I optimize scenarios for movie making?

	Description:	Use the existing REMSAT scenario and analysis to plan a technical animation that allows you to visualize the communication of the REMSAT system, and the fire fighting techniques of the Hercules aircraft for the Colorado State Forest Service.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

Will my radar detect a cruise missile attack?

	Description:	Build an STK scenario that will help you track an enemy missile headed toward your camp in Northern Afghanistan. Use that scenario to determine if you would be able to detect a cruise missile attack with your current radar system, and assess wether additional radar sites would strengthen your system and provide the coverage needed for your troops to prepare a defense.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 81 MB

When will my GPS satellites enter an eclipse season?

	Description:	Use the Vector Geometry Tool (VGT) to model the beta angle for each GPS orbital plane over a six month period to determine when each will be in an eclipse season.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 96 MB

Advanced Concepts

How will I survey yachts in all of the world's seas?

	Description:	Model a scenario to determine what your coverage of the open seas will be over a 24-hour period, considering different variations of altitude on your satellites.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Analyzer STK/Coverage

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 131 KB

At what true anomaly should I perform a burn if I want to minimize fuel useage?

	Description:	Model a scenario that will help you determine when to perform the satellite burn. You will first design a maneuver that the satellite can make, adjusting its orbit from one to another. You will use STK/Analyzer's Parametric Studey to determine the true anomaly (v) value to optimize your burn. You will then use STK/Analyzer's Carpet plot to determine what influence small variations from the optimal will have on the fuel requirement, as well as which parameters affect the fuel usage more drastically.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Analyzer STK/Astrogator

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 50 KB

Which two communications nodes will provide the most extensive coverage?

	Description:	Build an STK scenario that uses the four node locations to analyze communications between crews in the field and the nodes. Use STK/Analyzer to perform a coverage analysis of the exercise area using all possible combinations of two (2) of the four (4) different node locations. Determine which combination of two nodes provides the greatest percentage coverage of a defined portion of the Hayman burn area.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps STK/Analyzer

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

Saving & displaying data: snaps, graphs & dynamic displays

	Description:	Snap some of the action in the REMSAT scenario that highlight the important events that you identified. Create new graphics of the communications chain and flight data for Hercules and prepare them for import into your PowerPoint presentation.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	40 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

Can I provide my colleagues that do not use STK, with a useable version of my scenarios?

	Description:	Use the REMSAT scenario to create a Visual Data Format (VDF) version of the scenario. Once you have that last piece, you can put all of the data into your PowerPoint presentation.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	20 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

Can I make 3D models more realistic by adding moveable parts?

	Description:	Before taking any more snapshots or making the movies that will accompany your PowerPoint presentation, edit some of the models in the existing REMSAT scenario so that they seem more life-like. Use moving model parts to create a pointable antenna dish on Castle Rock, Hercules's propellers and the water release mechanism on the Hercules aircraft.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	70 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 4 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

How can I analyze the quality of my link budgets?

	Description:	Create a scenario that allows you to model and analyze the communcation link budgets between the Anik F2 satellite and Castle Rock as well as a LEO Globalstar satellite and one of the existing communications nodes.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps STK/Communications

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

How do I create animations using STK and other custom tools?

	Description:	Use the existing REMSAT scenario to create camera paths that follow the Hercules water drop and the path of field crews moving through the burn area. Use the camera paths to create technical animations that can be used with your presentation.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 4 MB Additional files (.zip) - 239 MB

How can I optimize my data collection schedule?

	Description:	Use STK and STK/Scheduler to create a collection schedule that will help you determine not only wether you should collect still imagery or video, but also allows you to prioritize each "hot spot" and determine when you should survey each location.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps STK/Scheduler

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 81 MB

How can I monitor and communicate with a decaying satellite?

	Description:	Build a scenario that will model the ship and its relationship between the MEO sats and the decaying satellite. Use STK to examine various possible attitude profiles for the satellite, as well as access times between the ship and satellite (during which time commands can be sent).

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Attitude STK/Coverage

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 96 KB

How will I determine the accuracy of my in-flight navigation solution?

	Description:	Build a scenario that will examine DOP over a large area (the entire airspace of the continental United States) to determine if there are any areas at any times which would provide a DOP value so unacceptable that you would not be able to use your GPS-reported position to provide a meaningful baseline for a comparison of the radar system's tracking data. Then examine the DOP values for a specific aircraft route as well.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Coverage

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB No additional files required for this exercise

How can I assess the threat of my satellite colliding with space debris?

	Description:	Use SOCRATES to model the threat of a potential collision in STK, and then visualize and analyze the potential collision using the tools and data providers in STK.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Conjunction Analysis Tools (CAT)

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 850 KB

Can I image locations on the ground from a Predator?

	Description:	Use STK and Connect to model a scenario that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sending in the Predator to survey the area in and around the caves of Afghanistan.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	80 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration STK/Terrain, Imagery, & Maps

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 81 MB

How can I model my mission battlespace & analyze access to tactical broadcasts?

	Description:	Using STK, TIM, GIS, RT3, DSim and Coverage you will create a battlespace visualization scenario to obtain situational awareness of this international crisis. You will execute a simulation of the rescue attempt to assess the impact of terrain on blue force communications to include jamming.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition STK Professional Edition STK/Integration DSim RT3 GIS Analyst

	Manual only (.pdf) - 3 MB Additional files (.zip) - 330 MB

How can I simulate & analyze a tactical rescue operation in real-time?

	Description:	In this exercise, you will take the tools in STK to create and analyze a fictional battlespace situation. You will have the opportunity to use DSIM date and RT3 to simulate entities in real-time in STK. You will then be able to customize the display and analysis of the real-time battlespace situation.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	60 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Expert Edition DSim RT3 GIS Analyst

	Manual only (.pdf) - 2 MB Additional files (.zip) - 330 MB

Development Tools Training

AGI Programmers Full Training

	Description:	AGI Programmers Workshop is a collection of instructor-led exercises that provide hands-on experience with a variety of the features and functions relating to Integration with STK and custom application development. This course will teach you various functions relating to programming with STK and the STK Engine including, using Connect and the Object Model to automate scenario development and programmatically get data from STK; extend STK capabilities to include custom algorithms; integrate STK with other applications; create custom interfaces using the STK Engine and much more.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	24 hrs
	Required Licenses:	STK Expert Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 14 MB Additional files (.zip) - 404 MB

STK Integration & The STK Engine

STK Integration

Using Connect to Communicate with STK

	Description:	In this exercise you will use STK/Connect to automate and integrate a project.

	Manual:	STK Comprehensive
	Time to Complete:	2 hrs
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration

	Manual only (.pdf) - 3 MB No additional files required for this exercise

Integrating and Extending STK

	Description:	In this exercise you will embed a lightweight HTML-based GUI inside of STK that can assist with pulling information from a database into STK for visualization and analysis.

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	2 hrs
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 86 KB

Using Matlab with Connect

	Description:	Use STK and Matlab to determine if you will be able to visualize Crater Lake from a satellite. You will also examine an STK Plugin in this exercise as well.

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration

	Manual only (.pdf) - 850 KB Additional files (.zip) - 11 MB

STK Engine

Advanced API Using the STK Engine and Connect Technology

	Description:	Automate the task of building a scenario that allows you to calculate a simple line-of-sight access between a town and the International Space Station by creating a custom application built on Connect and STK Engine technology

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	3 hrs
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 850 KB

Advanced API Using the STK Engine and Object Model Technology

	Description:	Explore the second AGI API, the Object Model. Then, automate the task of building a scenario that allows you to calculate a simple line-of-sight access between a town and the International Space Satation by creating a custom application that uses the STK Automation Object Model and STK Engine technology.

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	3 hrs
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB Additional files (.zip) - 850 KB

STK Engine for Java

STK Java API - Intro

	Description:	Examine the STK Java API and its resources.

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	40 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration

	Manual only (.pdf) - 126 KB No additional files required for this exercise

STK Java API Application

	Description:	Build an STK custom application using AGI's Java wrappers in the development environment, Eclipse.

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	40 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Professional Edition STK/Integration

	Manual only (.pdf) - 128 KB Additional files (.zip) - 83 MB

Custom Application Framework

	Description:	Use the AGI Custom Application Framework to quickly build a custom application. This application will include a working Web browser, media player, a mechanicsm that allows you to load an existing sceario and view the objects in that scenario, and a fully functional 3D window equipped with a set of animation controls.

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	50 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Expert Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 1 MB No additional files required for this exercise

AGI Components

	Description:	Examine the AGI Component libraries and develop a simple custom Component application.

	Manual:	AGI Development Tools Training
	Time to Complete:	240 min
	Required Licenses:	STK Basic Edition

	Manual only (.pdf) - 4 MB Additional files (.zip) - 10 MB

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