In can be used both to inspect video tapes offline, and to do online recognition for an automatic video meteor camera. It stores the appearance time of meteors and optionally a sum image and an animation from each event. MetRec is able to compute the meteor's brightness, it's velocity and equatorial coordinates, and to determine the meteor shower it belongs to. The software is highly flexible - it can be adapted to each individual system with a number of parameters to be set in a configuration file.
All output is written into a logfile or sent to a printer.
During recognition, the current input signal and the system state is displayed at the computer monitor. MetRec uses a complex algorithm to detect even faint meteors and minimize the false detection rate. Here only a short overview is given. Please, refer to the ReadMe file for a more detailed description. The program digitizes video frames and subtracts a mean image at first.