Meteoroids entering the Earth ’ s atmosphere can be observed as meteors , thereby providing useful information on their formation and hence on their parent bodies .
We developed a data reduction software package for double station meteor data from the SPOSH camera , which includes event detection , image geometric and radiometric calibration , radiant and speed estimates , trajectory and orbit determination , and meteor light curve recovery .
The software package is designed to fully utilise the high photometric quality of SPOSH images .
This will facilitate the detection of meteor streams and studies of their trajectories .
We have run simulations to assess the performance of the software by estimating the radiants , speeds , and magnitudes of synthetic meteors and comparing them with the a priori values .
The estimated uncertainties in radiant location had a zero mean with a median deviation between 0.03 ^ { \circ } and 0.11 ^ { \circ } for the right ascension and 0.02 ^ { \circ } and 0.07 ^ { \circ } for the declination .
The estimated uncertainties for the speeds had a median deviation between 0.40 and 0.45 km s ^ { -1 } .
The brightness of synthetic meteors was estimated to within +0.01m .
We have applied the software package to 177 real meteors acquired by the SPOSH camera .
The median propagated uncertainties in geocentric right ascension and declination were found to be of 0.64 ^ { \circ } and 0.29 ^ { \circ } , while the median propagated error in geocentric speed was 1.21 km s ^ { -1 } .