KARL Versioning

• Major versions include a change or addition to the flow of data
• Minor versions (including alpha and beta) include parameter refinements and tweaks
• Some very subtle tweaks may be made without prompting a version change.  These are to improve system efficiency and do not impact data collection.
• Diagrams represent the flow of data for that version

• Green represents an added processing step
• Red represents a removed processing step
• Grey represents steps that were unchanged, excluding parameter refinements to accommodate other changes.

KARL 1.x Family

• Studies Diurnal Variation
• Data recorded and studied as a Kolorgramme (Colorgramme)
• This version has several sub-versions, which are denoted as letters following the version number.  These do not reflect any parameter changes, but instead, represent different statistical cutoffs used in Kolorgramme.

KARL 2.x Family

• Used to study duration of a given population of meteors.
• Data analysis conducted with Duratogramme, a custom spreadsheet system that categorizes noise events into bins representing different duration, then visualizes that data in a variety of ways.

SPECULATED Future KARL releases

• Detects and records only meteors of an acceptable duration
• The final incarnation of KARL - replaces HROFFT with a more advanced meteor counter.
• Merges Kolorgramme and Duratogramme into a single tool,  Nogata