prop/lib/microwaveprop/propagation/common_volume.ex
Graham McIntire 33f5d4edbe
feat(rainscatter): classify QSO propagation mechanism from common-volume radar
Adds a per-contact enrichment pipeline that determines whether a QSO was
most likely carried by rain scatter, tropospheric ducting, or ordinary
troposcatter — using IEM n0q composite reflectivity sampled inside the
lens-shaped intersection of 400 km-radius disks around each endpoint.

Pieces:
  * Microwaveprop.Propagation.CommonVolume — lens geometry (haversine,
    in-CV test, bbox, area).
  * contact_common_volume_radar table (1:1 per contact) storing
    aggregate dBZ stats inside the CV + radar_status column on contacts.
  * Microwaveprop.Workers.CommonVolumeRadarWorker — Oban :radar queue,
    fetches the n0q frame at QSO time, iterates pixels inside the CV
    bbox, aggregates rain/heavy/core-pixel counts, max/mean dBZ, and
    coverage percentage.
  * Microwaveprop.Propagation.RainScatterClassifier — rule-based mapper
    from (band, distance, radar stats, duct flags) to one of
    :likely_rainscatter | :rainscatter_possible | :tropo_duct |
    :troposcatter | :unknown.
  * ContactWeatherEnqueueWorker learns a :radar enrichment type and
    enqueues the CV worker on contact submission; pre-2014 contacts
    (outside IEM n0q coverage) are pinned to :unavailable.
  * `mix radar_backfill` bulk-enqueues historical contacts with
    --year / --limit / --dry-run.
  * Contact detail page renders a mechanism badge with supporting
    stats (common-volume area, max dBZ, heavy-rain pixel count,
    coverage %).
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defmodule Microwaveprop.Propagation.CommonVolume do
@moduledoc """
Geometry for the "common volume" of a microwave QSO — the lens-shaped
intersection of two circles of radius R around the endpoints.
Rain-scatter requires both stations' beams to intersect a precipitating
cell, so the cell has to live inside both 400 km-radius neighborhoods.
This module provides the geometric primitives a classifier needs:
* `in_common_volume?/4` — is a point inside both disks?
* `bounding_box/3` — lat/lon rectangle that contains the lens
* `area_km2/3` — area of the intersection, for coverage normalization
Distances are spherical-great-circle (haversine) at mean Earth radius.
"""
@earth_radius_km 6371.0
@km_per_deg_lat 111.32
@type latlon :: {float(), float()}
@type bbox :: %{min_lat: float(), max_lat: float(), min_lon: float(), max_lon: float()}
@doc "Is `point` within `radius_km` of both endpoints?"
@spec in_common_volume?(latlon(), latlon(), latlon(), float()) :: boolean()
def in_common_volume?(pos1, pos2, point, radius_km) do
haversine_km(pos1, point) <= radius_km and haversine_km(pos2, point) <= radius_km
end
@doc """
Lat/lon rectangle containing the common volume. Returns `:empty` when
the two circles don't overlap.
"""
@spec bounding_box(latlon(), latlon(), float()) :: bbox() | :empty
def bounding_box({lat1, lon1} = pos1, {lat2, lon2} = pos2, radius_km) do
if haversine_km(pos1, pos2) > 2 * radius_km do
:empty
else
lat_pad = radius_km / @km_per_deg_lat
# Approximate longitude degrees-per-km at the higher-latitude endpoint
# (narrower at higher lat, so more conservative).
ref_lat = max(abs(lat1), abs(lat2))
km_per_deg_lon = @km_per_deg_lat * max(:math.cos(ref_lat * :math.pi() / 180.0), 0.01)
lon_pad = radius_km / km_per_deg_lon
%{
min_lat: max(lat1 - lat_pad, lat2 - lat_pad),
max_lat: min(lat1 + lat_pad, lat2 + lat_pad),
min_lon: max(lon1 - lon_pad, lon2 - lon_pad),
max_lon: min(lon1 + lon_pad, lon2 + lon_pad)
}
end
end
@doc """
Area (km²) of the lens-shaped intersection of two circles of radius
`radius_km` centered at `pos1` and `pos2`. Returns `0.0` when the
circles don't overlap. Uses the standard two-circle lens formula
with the great-circle distance between centers.
"""
@spec area_km2(latlon(), latlon(), float()) :: float()
def area_km2(pos1, pos2, radius_km) do
d = haversine_km(pos1, pos2)
cond do
d >= 2 * radius_km ->
0.0
d <= 0.0 ->
:math.pi() * radius_km * radius_km
true ->
r = radius_km
# Lens area = 2 * [r² * arccos(d/2r) - (d/4) * sqrt(4r² - d²)]
part_arc = r * r * :math.acos(d / (2 * r))
part_tri = d / 4 * :math.sqrt(4 * r * r - d * d)
2 * (part_arc - part_tri)
end
end
@doc "Great-circle distance (km) between two lat/lon points."
@spec haversine_km(latlon(), latlon()) :: float()
def haversine_km({lat1, lon1}, {lat2, lon2}) do
rlat1 = lat1 * :math.pi() / 180.0
rlat2 = lat2 * :math.pi() / 180.0
dlat = (lat2 - lat1) * :math.pi() / 180.0
dlon = (lon2 - lon1) * :math.pi() / 180.0
a =
:math.sin(dlat / 2) * :math.sin(dlat / 2) +
:math.cos(rlat1) * :math.cos(rlat2) *
:math.sin(dlon / 2) * :math.sin(dlon / 2)
c = 2.0 * :math.atan2(:math.sqrt(a), :math.sqrt(1.0 - a))
@earth_radius_km * c
end
end