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Procedure
Abstract
Required_Reading
Keywords
Declarations
Brief_I/O
Detailed_Input
Detailed_Output
Parameters
Exceptions
Files
Particulars
Examples
Restrictions
Literature_References
Author_and_Institution
Version

Procedure

     GFDIST ( GF, distance search )

     SUBROUTINE GFDIST ( TARGET, ABCORR, OBSRVR, RELATE,
    .                    REFVAL, ADJUST, STEP,   CNFINE,
    .                    MW,     NW,     WORK,   RESULT  )

Abstract

     Determine time intervals over which a specified constraint on
     observer-target distance is met.

Required_Reading

     GF
     NAIF_IDS
     SPK
     TIME
     WINDOWS

Keywords

     EPHEMERIS
     EVENT
     GEOMETRY
     SEARCH
     WINDOW

Declarations

     IMPLICIT NONE

     INCLUDE               'gf.inc'
     INCLUDE               'zzholdd.inc'

     INTEGER               LBCELL
     PARAMETER           ( LBCELL = -5 )

     CHARACTER*(*)         TARGET
     CHARACTER*(*)         ABCORR
     CHARACTER*(*)         OBSRVR
     CHARACTER*(*)         RELATE
     DOUBLE PRECISION      REFVAL
     DOUBLE PRECISION      ADJUST
     DOUBLE PRECISION      STEP
     DOUBLE PRECISION      CNFINE ( LBCELL : * )
     INTEGER               MW
     INTEGER               NW
     DOUBLE PRECISION      WORK   ( LBCELL : MW, NW )
     DOUBLE PRECISION      RESULT ( LBCELL : * )

Brief_I/O

     VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION
     --------  ---  --------------------------------------------------
     LBCELL     P   SPICE Cell lower bound.
     CNVTOL     P   Convergence tolerance.
     NWDIST     P   Number of workspace windows for distance search.
     TARGET     I   Name of the target body.
     ABCORR     I   Aberration correction flag.
     OBSRVR     I   Name of the observing body.
     RELATE     I   Relational operator.
     REFVAL     I   Reference value.
     ADJUST     I   Adjustment value for absolute extrema searches.
     STEP       I   Step size used for locating extrema and roots.
     CNFINE     I   SPICE window to which the search is confined.
     MW         I   Workspace window size.
     NW         I   Workspace window count.
     WORK       O   Array of workspace windows.
     RESULT    I-O  SPICE window containing results.

Detailed_Input

     TARGET   is the name of a target body. Optionally, you may supply
              the integer ID code for the object as an integer string.
              For example both 'MOON' and '301' are legitimate strings
              that indicate the Moon is the target body.

              The target and observer define a position vector which
              points from the observer to the target; the length of
              this vector is the "distance" that serves as the subject
              of the search performed by this routine.

              Case and leading or trailing blanks are not significant
              in the string TARGET.

     ABCORR   indicates the aberration corrections to be applied to the
              observer-target position vector to account for one-way
              light time and stellar aberration.

              Any aberration correction accepted by the SPICE routine
              SPKEZR is accepted here. See the header of SPKEZR for a
              detailed description of the aberration correction
              options. For convenience, the options are listed below:

                 'NONE'     Apply no correction.

                 'LT'       "Reception" case: correct for
                            one-way light time using a Newtonian
                            formulation.

                 'LT+S'     "Reception" case: correct for
                            one-way light time and stellar
                            aberration using a Newtonian
                            formulation.

                 'CN'       "Reception" case: converged
                            Newtonian light time correction.

                 'CN+S'     "Reception" case: converged
                            Newtonian light time and stellar
                            aberration corrections.

                 'XLT'      "Transmission" case: correct for
                            one-way light time using a Newtonian
                            formulation.

                 'XLT+S'    "Transmission" case: correct for
                            one-way light time and stellar
                            aberration using a Newtonian
                            formulation.

                 'XCN'      "Transmission" case: converged
                            Newtonian light time correction.

                 'XCN+S'    "Transmission" case: converged
                            Newtonian light time and stellar
                            aberration corrections.

              Case and leading or trailing blanks are not significant
              in the string ABCORR.

     OBSRVR   is the name of an observing body. Optionally, you may
              supply the ID code of the object as an integer string.
              For example, both 'EARTH' and '399' are legitimate
              strings to supply to indicate the observer is Earth.

              Case and leading or trailing blanks are not significant
              in the string OBSRVR.

     RELATE   is a relational operator used to define a constraint on
              the observer-target distance. The result window found by
              this routine indicates the time intervals where the
              constraint is satisfied.

              Supported values of RELATE and corresponding meanings are
              shown below:

                 '>'        Distance is greater than the reference
                            value REFVAL.

                 '='        Distance is equal to the reference
                            value REFVAL.

                 '<'        Distance is less than the reference
                            value REFVAL.

                 'ABSMAX'   Distance is at an absolute maximum.

                 'ABSMIN'   Distance is at an absolute  minimum.

                 'LOCMAX'   Distance is at a local maximum.

                 'LOCMIN'   Distance is at a local minimum.

              The caller may indicate that the region of interest is
              the set of time intervals where the distance is within a
              specified offset relative to an absolute extremum. The
              argument ADJUST (described below) is used to specify this
              offset.

              Local extrema are considered to exist only in the
              interiors of the intervals comprising the confinement
              window:  a local extremum cannot exist at a boundary
              point of the confinement window.

              Case and leading or trailing blanks are not significant
              in the string RELATE.

     REFVAL   is the reference value used together with the argument
              RELATE to define an equality or inequality to be
              satisfied by the distance between the specified target
              and observer. See the discussion of RELATE above for
              further information.

              The units of REFVAL are km.

     ADJUST   is a parameter used to modify searches for absolute
              extrema: when RELATE is set to 'ABSMAX' or 'ABSMIN' and
              ADJUST is set to a positive value, GFDIST will find times
              when the observer-target distance is within ADJUST km of
              the specified extreme value.

              If ADJUST is non-zero and a search for an absolute
              minimum AMIN is performed, the result window contains
              time intervals when the observer-target distance has
              values between AMIN and AMIN + ADJUST.

              If the search is for an absolute maximum AMAX, the
              corresponding range is  between AMAX - ADJUST and AMAX.

              ADJUST is not used for searches for local extrema,
              equality or inequality conditions.

     STEP     is the step size to be used in the search. STEP must be
              shorter than any maximal time interval on which the
              specified distance function is monotone increasing or
              decreasing. That is, if the confinement window is
              partitioned into alternating intervals on which the
              distance function is either monotone increasing or
              decreasing, STEP must be shorter than any of these
              intervals.

              However, STEP must not be *too* short, or the search will
              take an unreasonable amount of time.

              The choice of STEP affects the completeness but not the
              precision of solutions found by this routine; the
              precision is controlled by the convergence tolerance. See
              the discussion of the parameter CNVTOL for details.

              STEP has units of TDB seconds.

     CNFINE   is a SPICE window that confines the time period over
              which the specified search is conducted. CNFINE may
              consist of a single interval or a collection of
              intervals.

              The endpoints of the time intervals comprising CNFINE are
              interpreted as seconds past J2000 TDB.

              See the $Examples section below for a code example that
              shows how to create a confinement window.

              CNFINE must be initialized by the caller via the SPICELIB
              routine SSIZED.

              In some cases the observer's state may be computed at
              times outside of CNFINE by as much as 2 seconds. See
              $Particulars for details.

     MW       is a parameter specifying the length of the SPICE windows
              in the workspace array WORK (see description below) used
              by this routine.

              MW should be set to a number at least twice as large as
              the maximum number of intervals required by any workspace
              window. In many cases, it's not necessary to compute an
              accurate estimate of how many intervals are needed;
              rather, the user can pick a size considerably larger than
              what's really required.

              However, since excessively large arrays can prevent
              applications from compiling, linking, or running
              properly, sometimes MW must be set according to the
              actual workspace requirement. A rule of thumb for the
              number of intervals NINTVLS needed is

                 NINTVLS  =  2*N  +  ( M / STEP )

              where

                 N     is the number of intervals in the confinement
                       window

                 M     is the measure of the confinement window, in
                       units of seconds

                 STEP  is the search step size in seconds

              MW should then be set to

                 2 * NINTVLS

     NW       is a parameter specifying the number of SPICE windows in
              the workspace array WORK (see description below) used by
              this routine. NW should be set to the parameter NWDIST;
              this parameter is declared in the include file gf.inc.
              (The reason this dimension is an input argument is that
              this allows run-time error checking to be performed.)

     RESULT   is a double precision SPICE window which will contain
              the search results. RESULT must be declared and
              initialized with sufficient size to capture the full
              set of time intervals within the search region on which
              the specified condition is satisfied.

              RESULT must be initialized by the caller via the
              SPICELIB routine SSIZED.

              If RESULT is non-empty on input, its contents will be
              discarded before GFDIST conducts its search.

Detailed_Output

     WORK     is an array used to store workspace windows.

              This array should be declared by the caller as shown:

                 INCLUDE 'gf.inc'
                    ...

                 DOUBLE PRECISION    WORK ( LBCELL : MW, NWDIST )

              where MW is a constant declared by the caller and NWDIST
              is a constant defined in the SPICELIB INCLUDE file
              gf.inc. See the discussion of MW above.

              WORK need not be initialized by the caller.

              WORK is modified by this routine. The caller should
              re-initialize this array before attempting to use it for
              any other purpose.

     RESULT   is the SPICE window of intervals, contained within the
              confinement window CNFINE, on which the specified
              distance constraint is satisfied.

              The endpoints of the time intervals comprising RESULT
              are interpreted as seconds past J2000 TDB.

              If the search is for local extrema, or for absolute
              extrema with ADJUST set to zero, then normally each
              interval of RESULT will be a singleton: the left and
              right endpoints of each interval will be identical.

              If no times within the confinement window satisfy the
              search criteria, RESULT will be returned with a
              cardinality of zero.

Parameters

     LBCELL   is the lower bound for SPICE Cell arrays.

     CNVTOL   is the convergence tolerance used for finding
              endpoints of the intervals comprising the result
              window. CNVTOL is also used for finding intermediate
              results; in particular, CNVTOL is used for finding the
              windows on which the specified distance is increasing
              or decreasing. CNVTOL is used to determine when binary
              searches for roots should terminate: when a root is
              bracketed within an interval of length CNVTOL; the
              root is considered to have been found.

              The accuracy, as opposed to precision, of roots found
              by this routine depends on the accuracy of the input
              data. In most cases, the accuracy of solutions will be
              inferior to their precision.

     NWDIST   is the number of workspace windows required by
              this routine.

     See INCLUDE file gf.inc for declarations and descriptions of
     parameters used throughout the GF system.

Exceptions

     1)  In order for this routine to produce correct results,
         the step size must be appropriate for the problem at hand.
         Step sizes that are too large may cause this routine to miss
         roots; step sizes that are too small may cause this routine
         to run unacceptably slowly and in some cases, find spurious
         roots.

         This routine does not diagnose invalid step sizes, except that
         if the step size is non-positive, an error is signaled by a
         routine in the call tree of this routine.

     2)  Due to numerical errors, in particular,

            - Truncation error in time values
            - Finite tolerance value
            - Errors in computed geometric quantities

         it is *normal* for the condition of interest to not always be
         satisfied near the endpoints of the intervals comprising the
         result window.

         The result window may need to be contracted slightly by the
         caller to achieve desired results. The SPICE window routine
         WNCOND can be used to contract the result window.

     3)  If an error (typically cell overflow) occurs while performing
         window arithmetic, the error is signaled by a routine
         in the call tree of this routine.

     4)  If the relational operator RELATE is not recognized, an
         error is signaled by a routine in the call tree of this
         routine.

     5)  If the aberration correction specifier contains an
         unrecognized value, an error is signaled by a routine in the
         call tree of this routine.

     6)  If ADJUST is negative, an error is signaled by a routine in
         the call tree of this routine.

     7)  If either of the input body names do not map to NAIF ID
         codes, an error is signaled by a routine in the call tree of
         this routine.

     8)  If required ephemerides or other kernel data are not
         available, an error is signaled by a routine in the call tree
         of this routine.

     9)  If the window size MW is less than 2, the error
         SPICE(INVALIDDIMENSION) is signaled.

     10) If the window count NW is less than NWDIST, the error
         SPICE(INVALIDDIMENSION) is signaled.

     11) If the result window has size less than 2, the error
         SPICE(INVALIDDIMENSION) is signaled.

     12) If the output SPICE window RESULT has insufficient capacity
         to contain the number of intervals on which the specified
         distance condition is met, an error is signaled
         by a routine in the call tree of this routine.

Files

     Appropriate kernels must be loaded by the calling program before
     this routine is called.

     The following data are required:

     -  SPK data: ephemeris data for target and observer for the
        time period defined by the confinement window must be
        loaded. If aberration corrections are used, the states of
        target and observer relative to the solar system barycenter
        must be calculable from the available ephemeris data.
        Typically ephemeris data are made available by loading one
        or more SPK files via FURNSH.

     -  If non-inertial reference frames are used, then PCK
        files, frame kernels, C-kernels, and SCLK kernels may be
        needed.

     -  In some cases the observer's state may be computed at times
        outside of CNFINE by as much as 2 seconds; data required to
        compute this state must be provided by loaded kernels. See
        $Particulars for details.

     Kernel data are normally loaded once per program run, NOT every
     time this routine is called.

Particulars

     This routine determines a set of one or more time intervals
     within the confinement window when the distance between the
     specified target and observer satisfies a caller-specified
     constraint. The resulting set of intervals is returned as a SPICE
     window.

     Below we discuss in greater detail aspects of this routine's
     solution process that are relevant to correct and efficient
     use of this routine in user applications.


     The Search Process
     ==================

     Regardless of the type of constraint selected by the caller, this
     routine starts the search for solutions by determining the time
     periods, within the confinement window, over which the
     distance function is monotone increasing and monotone
     decreasing. Each of these time periods is represented by a SPICE
     window. Having found these windows, all of the range rate
     function's local extrema within the confinement window are known.
     Absolute extrema then can be found very easily.

     Within any interval of these "monotone" windows, there will be at
     most one solution of any equality constraint. Since the boundary
     of the solution set for any inequality constraint is contained in
     the union of

     -  the set of points where an equality constraint is met

     -  the boundary points of the confinement window

     the solutions of both equality and inequality constraints can be
     found easily once the monotone windows have been found.


     Step Size
     =========

     The monotone windows (described above) are found via a two-step
     search process. Each interval of the confinement window is
     searched as follows: first, the input step size is the time
     separation at which the sign of the rate of change of distance
     ("range rate") is sampled. Starting at the left endpoint of the
     interval, samples will be taken at each step. If a change of sign
     is found, a root has been bracketed; at that point, the time at
     which the range rate is zero can be found by a refinement
     process, for example, via binary search.

     Note that the optimal choice of step size depends on the lengths
     of the intervals over which the distance function is monotone:
     the step size should be shorter than the shortest of these
     intervals (within the confinement window).

     The optimal step size is *not* necessarily related to the lengths
     of the intervals comprising the result window. For example, if
     the shortest monotone interval has length 10 days, and if the
     shortest result window interval has length 5 minutes, a step size
     of 9.9 days is still adequate to find all of the intervals in the
     result window. In situations like this, the technique of using
     monotone windows yields a dramatic efficiency improvement over a
     state-based search that simply tests at each step whether the
     specified constraint is satisfied. The latter type of search can
     miss solution intervals if the step size is longer than the
     shortest solution interval.

     Having some knowledge of the relative geometry of the target and
     observer can be a valuable aid in picking a reasonable step size.
     In general, the user can compensate for lack of such knowledge by
     picking a very short step size; the cost is increased computation
     time.

     Note that the step size is not related to the precision with which
     the endpoints of the intervals of the result window are computed.
     That precision level is controlled by the convergence tolerance.


     Convergence Tolerance
     =====================

     As described above, the root-finding process used by this routine
     involves first bracketing roots and then using a search process
     to locate them. "Roots" include times when extrema are attained
     and times when the distance function is equal to a reference
     value or adjusted extremum. All endpoints of the intervals
     comprising the result window are either endpoints of intervals of
     the confinement window or roots.

     Once a root has been bracketed, a refinement process is used to
     narrow down the time interval within which the root must lie.
     This refinement process terminates when the location of the root
     has been determined to within an error margin called the
     "convergence tolerance." The default convergence tolerance
     used by this routine is set by the parameter CNVTOL (defined
     in gf.inc).

     The value of CNVTOL is set to a "tight" value so that the
     tolerance doesn't become the limiting factor in the accuracy of
     solutions found by this routine. In general the accuracy of input
     data will be the limiting factor.

     The user may change the convergence tolerance from the default
     CNVTOL value by calling the routine GFSTOL, e.g.

        CALL GFSTOL( tolerance value )

     Call GFSTOL prior to calling this routine. All subsequent
     searches will use the updated tolerance value.

     Setting the tolerance tighter than CNVTOL is unlikely to be
     useful, since the results are unlikely to be more accurate.
     Making the tolerance looser will speed up searches somewhat,
     since a few convergence steps will be omitted. However, in most
     cases, the step size is likely to have a much greater effect
     on processing time than would the convergence tolerance.


     The Confinement Window
     ======================

     The simplest use of the confinement window is to specify a time
     interval within which a solution is sought. However, the
     confinement window can, in some cases, be used to make searches
     more efficient. Sometimes it's possible to do an efficient search
     to reduce the size of the time period over which a relatively
     slow search of interest must be performed. See the "CASCADE"
     example program in gf.req for a demonstration.

     Certain types of searches require the state of the observer,
     relative to the solar system barycenter, to be computed at times
     slightly outside the confinement window CNFINE. The time window
     that is actually used is the result of "expanding" CNFINE by a
     specified amount "T": each time interval of CNFINE is expanded by
     shifting the interval's left endpoint to the left and the right
     endpoint to the right by T seconds. Any overlapping intervals are
     merged. (The input argument CNFINE is not modified.)

     The window expansions listed below are additive: if both
     conditions apply, the window expansion amount is the sum of the
     individual amounts.

     -  If a search uses an equality constraint, the time window
        over which the state of the observer is computed is expanded
        by 1 second at both ends of all of the time intervals
        comprising the window over which the search is conducted.

     -  If a search uses stellar aberration corrections, the time
        window over which the state of the observer is computed is
        expanded as described above.

     When light time corrections are used, expansion of the search
     window also affects the set of times at which the light time-
     corrected state of the target is computed.

     In addition to the possible 2 second expansion of the search
     window that occurs when both an equality constraint and stellar
     aberration corrections are used, round-off error should be taken
     into account when the need for data availability is analyzed.

Examples

     The numerical results shown for these examples may differ across
     platforms. The results depend on the SPICE kernels used as
     input, the compiler and supporting libraries, and the machine
     specific arithmetic implementation.


     1) Find times during the first three months of the year 2007 when
        the geometric Earth-Moon distance is greater than 400000 km.
        Display the start and stop times of the time intervals over
        which this constraint is met, along with the Earth-Moon
        distance at each interval endpoint.

        We expect the Earth-Moon distance to be an oscillatory
        function with extrema roughly two weeks apart. Using
        a step size of one day guarantees that the GF system
        won't fail to find any distance extrema. (Recall that a
        search for distance extrema is an intermediate step
        in the GF search process.)

        Use the meta-kernel shown below to load the required SPICE
        kernels.


           KPL/MK

           File name: gfdist_ex1.tm

           This meta-kernel is intended to support operation of SPICE
           example programs. The kernels shown here should not be
           assumed to contain adequate or correct versions of data
           required by SPICE-based user applications.

           In order for an application to use this meta-kernel, the
           kernels referenced here must be present in the user's
           current working directory.

           The names and contents of the kernels referenced
           by this meta-kernel are as follows:

              File name                     Contents
              ---------                     --------
              de421.bsp                     Planetary ephemeris
              pck00008.tpc                  Planet orientation and
                                            radii
              naif0009.tls                  Leapseconds


           \begindata

              KERNELS_TO_LOAD = ( 'de421.bsp',
                                  'pck00008.tpc',
                                  'naif0009.tls'  )

           \begintext

           End of meta-kernel


        Example code begins here.


              PROGRAM GFDIST_EX1
              IMPLICIT NONE

        C
        C     Include GF parameter declarations:
        C
              INCLUDE 'gf.inc'

        C
        C     SPICELIB functions
        C
              DOUBLE PRECISION      SPD
              DOUBLE PRECISION      VNORM
              INTEGER               WNCARD

        C
        C     Local parameters
        C
              INTEGER               LBCELL
              PARAMETER           ( LBCELL = -5 )

        C
        C     Use the parameter MAXWIN for both
        C     the result window size and the workspace
        C     size.
        C
              INTEGER               MAXWIN
              PARAMETER           ( MAXWIN = 20000 )

        C
        C     Length of output time string:
        C
              INTEGER               TIMLEN
              PARAMETER           ( TIMLEN = 26 )

        C
        C     Local variables
        C
              CHARACTER*(TIMLEN)    TIMSTR

              DOUBLE PRECISION      ADJUST
              DOUBLE PRECISION      CNFINE ( LBCELL : 2 )
              DOUBLE PRECISION      DIST
              DOUBLE PRECISION      ET0
              DOUBLE PRECISION      ET1
              DOUBLE PRECISION      FINISH
              DOUBLE PRECISION      LT
              DOUBLE PRECISION      POS    ( 3 )
              DOUBLE PRECISION      REFVAL
              DOUBLE PRECISION      RESULT ( LBCELL : MAXWIN )
              DOUBLE PRECISION      START
              DOUBLE PRECISION      STEP
              DOUBLE PRECISION      WORK   ( LBCELL : MAXWIN, NWDIST )

              INTEGER               I

        C
        C     Saved variables
        C
        C     The confinement, workspace and result windows CNFINE,
        C     WORK and RESULT are saved because this practice helps to
        C     prevent stack overflow.
        C
              SAVE                  CNFINE
              SAVE                  RESULT
              SAVE                  WORK

        C
        C     Load kernels.
        C
              CALL FURNSH ( 'gfdist_ex1.tm' )

        C
        C     Initialize windows.
        C
              CALL SSIZED ( MAXWIN, RESULT )
              CALL SSIZED ( 2,      CNFINE )

        C
        C     Store the time bounds of our search interval in
        C     the confinement window.
        C
              CALL STR2ET ( '2007 JAN 1', ET0 )
              CALL STR2ET ( '2007 APR 1', ET1 )

              CALL WNINSD ( ET0, ET1, CNFINE )

        C
        C     Search using a step size of 1 day (in units of
        C     seconds). The reference value is 450000 km.
        C     We're not using the adjustment feature, so
        C     we set ADJUST to zero.
        C
              STEP   = SPD()
              REFVAL = 4.D5
              ADJUST = 0.D0

        C
        C     Perform the search. The set of times when the
        C     constraint is met will be stored in the SPICE
        C     window RESULT.
        C
              CALL GFDIST ( 'MOON', 'NONE', 'EARTH', '>',
             .              REFVAL, ADJUST, STEP,    CNFINE,
             .              MAXWIN, NWDIST, WORK,    RESULT )

        C
        C     Display the results.
        C
              IF ( WNCARD(RESULT) .EQ. 0 ) THEN

                 WRITE (*, '(A)') 'Result window is empty.'

              ELSE

                 DO I = 1, WNCARD(RESULT)

        C
        C           Fetch the endpoints of the Ith interval
        C           of the result window.
        C
                    CALL WNFETD ( RESULT, I, START, FINISH )

        C
        C           Check the distance at the start and stop times.
        C
                    CALL SPKPOS ( 'MOON',  START, 'J2000', 'NONE',
             .                    'EARTH', POS,   LT            )
                    DIST = VNORM(POS)

                    CALL TIMOUT ( START, 'YYYY-MON-DD HR:MN:SC.###',
             .                    TIMSTR                            )

                    WRITE (*, '(A,F14.7)' ) 'Start time, distance = '//
             .                              TIMSTR, DIST

                    CALL SPKPOS ( 'MOON',  FINISH, 'J2000', 'NONE',
             .                    'EARTH', POS,     LT            )
                    DIST = VNORM(POS)

                    CALL TIMOUT ( FINISH, 'YYYY-MON-DD HR:MN:SC.###',
             .                    TIMSTR                            )

                    WRITE (*, '(A,F14.7)' ) 'Stop time,  distance = '//
             .                              TIMSTR, DIST
                 END DO

              END IF
              END


        When this program was executed on a Mac/Intel/gfortran/64-bit
        platform, the output was:


        Start time, distance = 2007-JAN-08 00:10:02.439  400000.0000000
        Stop time,  distance = 2007-JAN-13 06:36:42.770  400000.0000000
        Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-04 07:01:30.094  400000.0000000
        Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-10 09:29:56.659  400000.0000000
        Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-03 00:19:19.998  400000.0000000
        Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-10 14:03:33.312  400000.0000000
        Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-29 22:52:52.961  400000.0000000
        Stop time,  distance = 2007-APR-01 00:00:00.000  404531.9552322


        Note that the distance at the final solutions interval's stop
        time is not close to the reference value of 400000 km. This is
        because the interval's stop time was determined by the stop
        time of the confinement window.


     2) Extend the first example to demonstrate use of all supported
        relational operators. Find times when

           Earth-Moon distance is = 400000 km
           Earth-Moon distance is < 400000 km
           Earth-Moon distance is > 400000 km
           Earth-Moon distance is at a local minimum
           Earth-Moon distance is at the absolute minimum
           Earth-Moon distance is > the absolute minimum + 100 km
           Earth-Moon distance is at a local maximum
           Earth-Moon distance is at the absolute maximum
           Earth-Moon distance is > the absolute maximum - 100 km

        To shorten the search time and output, use the
        shorter search interval

           2007 JAN 15 00:00:00 UTC  to
           2007 MAR 15 00:00:00 UTC

        As before, use geometric (uncorrected) positions, so
        set the aberration correction flag to 'NONE'.

        Use the meta-kernel from the first example.


        Example code begins here.


              PROGRAM GFDIST_EX2
              IMPLICIT NONE

        C
        C     Include GF parameter declarations:
        C
              INCLUDE 'gf.inc'

        C
        C     SPICELIB functions
        C
              DOUBLE PRECISION      SPD
              DOUBLE PRECISION      VNORM
              INTEGER               WNCARD

        C
        C     Local parameters
        C
              INTEGER               LBCELL
              PARAMETER           ( LBCELL = -5 )

        C
        C     Use the parameter MAXWIN for both
        C     the result window size and the workspace
        C     size.
        C
              INTEGER               MAXWIN
              PARAMETER           ( MAXWIN = 20000 )

        C
        C     Length of output time string:
        C
              INTEGER               TIMLEN
              PARAMETER           ( TIMLEN = 26 )

        C
        C     Number of relational operators:
        C
              INTEGER               NRELOP
              PARAMETER           ( NRELOP = 9 )

        C
        C     Operator name length:
        C
              INTEGER               OPNMLN
              PARAMETER           ( OPNMLN = 6 )

        C
        C     Output line length:
        C
              INTEGER               LNSIZE
              PARAMETER           ( LNSIZE = 80 )

        C
        C     Output format
        C
              CHARACTER*(*)         FMT1
              PARAMETER           ( FMT1 = '(A,F12.5)' )

        C
        C     Local variables
        C
              CHARACTER*(OPNMLN)    RELATE ( NRELOP )
              CHARACTER*(LNSIZE)    TEMPLT ( NRELOP )
              CHARACTER*(TIMLEN)    TIMSTR
              CHARACTER*(LNSIZE)    TITLE

              DOUBLE PRECISION      ADJUST ( NRELOP )
              DOUBLE PRECISION      CNFINE ( LBCELL : 2 )
              DOUBLE PRECISION      DIST
              DOUBLE PRECISION      ET0
              DOUBLE PRECISION      ET1
              DOUBLE PRECISION      FINSH
              DOUBLE PRECISION      LT
              DOUBLE PRECISION      POS    ( 3 )
              DOUBLE PRECISION      REFVAL
              DOUBLE PRECISION      RESULT ( LBCELL : MAXWIN )
              DOUBLE PRECISION      START
              DOUBLE PRECISION      STEP
              DOUBLE PRECISION      WORK   ( LBCELL : MAXWIN, NWDIST )

              INTEGER               I
              INTEGER               J

        C
        C     Saved variables
        C
              SAVE                  ADJUST
              SAVE                  RELATE
              SAVE                  TEMPLT

        C
        C     The confinement, workspace and result windows CNFINE,
        C     WORK and RESULT are saved because this practice helps to
        C     prevent stack overflow.
        C
              SAVE                  CNFINE
              SAVE                  RESULT
              SAVE                  WORK

        C
        C     Initial values
        C
              DATA                  ADJUST / 0.D0,
             .                               0.D0,
             .                               0.D0,
             .                               0.D0,
             .                               0.D0,
             .                               100.D0,
             .                               0.D0,
             .                               0.D0,
             .                               100.D0 /

              DATA                  RELATE / '=',
             .                               '<',
             .                               '>',
             .                               'LOCMIN',
             .                               'ABSMIN',
             .                               'ABSMIN',
             .                               'LOCMAX',
             .                               'ABSMAX',
             .                               'ABSMAX'  /

              DATA                  TEMPLT /
             .   'Condition: distance = # km',
             .   'Condition: distance < # km',
             .   'Condition: distance > # km',
             .   'Condition: distance is a local minimum',
             .   'Condition: distance is the absolute minimum',
             .   'Condition: distance < the absolute minimum + * km',
             .   'Condition: distance is a local maximum',
             .   'Condition: distance is the absolute maximum',
             .   'Condition: distance > the absolute maximum - * km' /

        C
        C     Load kernels.
        C
              CALL FURNSH ( 'gfdist_ex1.tm' )

        C
        C     Initialize windows.
        C
              CALL SSIZED ( MAXWIN, RESULT )
              CALL SSIZED ( 2,      CNFINE )

        C
        C     Store the time bounds of our search interval in
        C     the confinement window.
        C
              CALL STR2ET ( '2007 JAN 15', ET0 )
              CALL STR2ET ( '2007 MAR 15', ET1 )

              CALL WNINSD ( ET0, ET1, CNFINE )

        C
        C     Search using a step size of 1 day (in units of
        C     seconds). Use a reference value of 400000 km.
        C
              STEP   = SPD()
              REFVAL = 4.D5

              DO I = 1, NRELOP

                 CALL GFDIST ( 'MOON', 'NONE',    'EARTH', RELATE(I),
             .                 REFVAL, ADJUST(I), STEP,    CNFINE,
             .                 MAXWIN, NWDIST,    WORK,    RESULT    )

        C
        C        Display the results.
        C
                 WRITE (*,*) ' '

        C
        C        Substitute the reference and adjustment values,
        C        where applicable, into the title string:
        C
                 CALL REPMD ( TEMPLT(I), '#', REFVAL,    6, TITLE )
                 CALL REPMD ( TITLE,     '*', ADJUST(I), 6, TITLE )

                 WRITE (*, '(A)' ) TITLE

                 IF ( WNCARD(RESULT) .EQ. 0 ) THEN
                    WRITE (*, '(A)' ) ' Result window is empty.'
                 ELSE
                    WRITE (*, '(A)' ) ' Result window:'

                    DO J = 1, WNCARD(RESULT)

        C
        C              Fetch the endpoints of the Jth interval
        C              of the result window.
        C
                       CALL WNFETD ( RESULT, J, START, FINSH )

        C
        C              Check the distance at the start and stop times.
        C
                       CALL SPKPOS ( 'MOON',  START, 'J2000', 'NONE',
             .                       'EARTH', POS,   LT              )
                       DIST = VNORM(POS)

                       CALL TIMOUT ( START, 'YYYY-MON-DD HR:MN:SC.###',
             .                       TIMSTR                           )

                       WRITE (*, FMT1 ) '  Start time, distance = '
             .         //               TIMSTR, DIST

                       CALL SPKPOS ( 'MOON',  FINSH, 'J2000', 'NONE',
             .                       'EARTH', POS,     LT            )
                       DIST = VNORM(POS)

                       CALL TIMOUT ( FINSH, 'YYYY-MON-DD HR:MN:SC.###',
             .                       TIMSTR                           )

                       WRITE (*, FMT1 ) '  Stop time,  distance = '
             .         //               TIMSTR, DIST
                    END DO

                 END IF

              END DO

              WRITE (*,*) ' '

              END


        When this program was executed on a Mac/Intel/gfortran/64-bit
        platform, the output was:


        Condition: distance = 4.00000E+05 km
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-04 07:01:30.094  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-04 07:01:30.094  400000.00000
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-10 09:29:56.659  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-10 09:29:56.659  400000.00000
          Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-03 00:19:19.998  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-03 00:19:19.998  400000.00000
          Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-10 14:03:33.312  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-10 14:03:33.312  400000.00000

        Condition: distance < 4.00000E+05 km
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-JAN-15 00:00:00.000  393018.60991
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-04 07:01:30.094  400000.00000
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-10 09:29:56.659  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-03 00:19:19.998  400000.00000
          Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-10 14:03:33.312  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-15 00:00:00.000  376255.45393

        Condition: distance > 4.00000E+05 km
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-04 07:01:30.094  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-10 09:29:56.659  400000.00000
          Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-03 00:19:19.998  400000.00000
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-10 14:03:33.312  400000.00000

        Condition: distance is a local minimum
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-JAN-22 12:30:49.458  366925.80411
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-JAN-22 12:30:49.458  366925.80411
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-19 09:36:29.968  361435.64681
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-19 09:36:29.968  361435.64681

        Condition: distance is the absolute minimum
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-19 09:36:29.968  361435.64681
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-19 09:36:29.968  361435.64681

        Condition: distance < the absolute minimum + 1.00000E+02 km
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-19 01:09:52.706  361535.64681
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-19 18:07:45.136  361535.64681

        Condition: distance is a local maximum
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-FEB-07 12:38:29.870  404992.42429
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-FEB-07 12:38:29.870  404992.42429
          Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-07 03:37:02.122  405853.45213
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-07 03:37:02.122  405853.45213

        Condition: distance is the absolute maximum
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-07 03:37:02.122  405853.45213
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-07 03:37:02.122  405853.45213

        Condition: distance > the absolute maximum - 1.00000E+02 km
         Result window:
          Start time, distance = 2007-MAR-06 15:56:00.957  405753.45213
          Stop time,  distance = 2007-MAR-07 15:00:38.674  405753.45213

Restrictions

     1)  The kernel files to be used by this routine must be loaded
         (normally via the SPICELIB routine FURNSH) before this routine
         is called.

Literature_References

     None.

Author_and_Institution

     N.J. Bachman       (JPL)
     J. Diaz del Rio    (ODC Space)
     E.D. Wright        (JPL)

Version

    SPICELIB Version 1.1.1, 27-OCT-2021 (JDR) (NJB)

        Edited the header to comply with NAIF standard.

        Edited second example code and modified the output resolution
        for the distances in that example to fit in the $Examples
        section without modifications. Renamed example's meta-kernel.
        Added SAVE statements for CNFINE, WORK and RESULT variables in
        code examples.

        Updated description of WORK and RESULT arguments in $Brief_I/O,
        $Detailed_Input and $Detailed_Output.

        Updated header to describe use of expanded confinement window.

    SPICELIB Version 1.1.0, 05-SEP-2012 (EDW)

        Edit to comments to correct search description.

        Implemented use of ZZHOLDD to allow user to alter convergence
        tolerance.

        Removed the STEP > 0 error check. The GFSSTP call includes
        the check.

    SPICELIB Version 1.0.0, 15-APR-2009 (NJB) (EDW)
Fri Dec 31 18:36:24 2021