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      • Foundation Classes
      • SpotAnalysis
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      • Foundation Classes
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      • PowerPoint Slide Generation
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      • SOFAST CAD Layout Tool
      • High-Precision Calibration Mirror Design
      • Metrology Support Models
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      • Interactive 2-d Ray Trace
      • Optical Targets
    • Data
      • BCS Data: Beam Shape Variation Across Time
      • BCS Data: Beam Pointing Error Variation Across Time
      • BCS Data: Dynamic Variation
      • Sandia Heliostat Canting Prescriptions
      • SOFAST 2.0 Data Examples
      • UFACET Flight Data
      • UFACET Analysis Data
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User Guides, Reports & Presentations

Current

  • OpenCSP Getting Started Step-by-Step Guide
  • OpenCSP Team. OpenCSP Contributor’s Guide
  • OpenCSP Team. OpenCSP Code Documentation
  • OpenCSP Base Classes and Ray Tracing
  • OpenCSP Portfolio
  • SOFAST 2.0 User Guide and Technical Description
  • OpenCSP Deflectometry Technical Description
  • OpenCSP Camera Calibration
  • Scene Reconstruction User Guide
  • SOFAST CAD Layout Tool Overview and User Guide
  • NSTTF Technical Information for OpenCSP

By Date

2025

  • Ground Truth for CSP Mirror Metrology (Full Length) 2025-10-23
  • Ground Truth for CSP Mirror Metrology 2025-09-23
  • Optical Effects of Temperature Change for Heliostat Mirrors 2025-09-23
  • Heliostat Fallacies and Optical Prescriptions 2025-08-05

2024

  • High-Speed UAV Assessment of Heliostat Fields 2024-04-21

2023

  • Challenges and Solutions in Heliostat Optical Metrology 2023-09-27
  • Interactive CAD Layout of Reflection-Based Mirror Metrology Systems 2023-09-26
  • Interactive Heliostat 2-d Ray Trace Tool 2023-09-25
  • Dual-Image Color Normalization to Enable High-Performance Concentrating Solar Optical Metrology 2023-09-20
  • Equinox Data Set Analysis 2023-09-18
  • UFACET Progress Review 2023-07-10
  • SOFAST Progress Review 2023-07-10

2021

  • Distortion Effects in CSP Mirror Reflections 2021-09-29

1992

  • Revisiting the BCS, a Measurement System for Characterizing the Optics of Solar Collectors 1992
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