Improve runtime track processing (accuracy and perf)

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Summary by Sourcery

Improve runtime track accuracy and performance with robust altitude cleanup and streamlined speed and bounds calculations.

New Features:

• Add physics-aware altitude spike and GPS dropout filtering that preserves genuine flight maneuvers and handles irregular sampling and gaps.

Bug Fixes:

• Prevent invalid altitude and speed results caused by isolated GPS spikes, zero dropouts, duplicate timestamps, and edge-of-track anomalies.

Enhancements:

• Optimize runtime horizontal and vertical speed calculations while returning track bounds and speed statistics in a single pass.

Build:

• Remove the moving-median dependency and its type declaration.

Tests:

• Add comprehensive tests covering altitude filtering, median calculation, ground speed, vertical speed, edge cases, and representative flight dynamics.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Altitude spikes and dropouts are filtered using nearby readings, helping preserve genuine changes in a flight profile.
  • Ground and vertical speeds are calculated over time windows, with track speed and altitude bounds computed alongside them for more consistent measurements across irregular or repeated timestamps.

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Reviewer's Guide

Improves runtime track accuracy by replacing delayed median altitude smoothing with a physically constrained, gap-aware spike/dropout filter, and improves performance by consolidating ground-speed, vertical-speed, and bounds calculations into sliding-window passes with robust edge-case handling and broad regression tests.

Sequence diagram for runtime track processing

sequenceDiagram
    participant Track as RuntimeTrack
    participant Worker as TrackWorker
    participant Filter as filterSpikes
    participant Speed as computeVerticalSpeed
    participant Ground as computeGroundSpeed

    Track->>Worker: postMessage(track data)
    Worker->>Filter: filterSpikes(alt, timeSec)
    Filter->>Filter: computeMedian(neighbors)
    Filter-->>Worker: maxAlt, minAlt
    Worker->>Speed: computeVerticalSpeed(alt, timeSec)
    Speed-->>Worker: vz, maxVz, minVz, altitude bounds
    Worker->>Worker: computeHeading(lat, lon)
    Worker->>Worker: filterPosition(lat, lon, timeSec)
    Worker-->>Track: processed track response

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Flow diagram for gap-aware altitude spike filtering

flowchart TD
    A["Altitude and timestamp fixes"] --> B{"Extreme vertical jump or dropout candidate?"}
    B -->|No| C["Keep altitude and update bounds"]
    B -->|Yes| D["Collect nearby valid neighbors"]
    D --> E["Respect time window and gap limits"]
    E --> F["computeMedian(neighbors)"]
    F --> G{"Spike or high-altitude dropout?"}
    G -->|Yes| H["Replace altitude with local median"]
    G -->|No| I["Keep altitude"]
    H --> J["Update minAlt and maxAlt"]
    I --> J
    C --> K["Return filtered altitude bounds"]
    J --> K

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Replaced the fixed-delay median altitude filter with an in-place, time-aware Hampel-style filter constrained by physical vertical-rate limits.	Detects isolated altitude spikes and nonpositive GPS dropouts using local neighbors, median deviation, rate thresholds, and gap boundaries. Preserves valid high-rate climbs, descents, peaks, troughs, low/negative altitudes, and irregularly sampled tracks. Computes altitude bounds during filtering and removes the moving-median dependency. Adds extensive regression coverage for filtering, edge cases, flight dynamics, gaps, and median calculation.	apps/fxc-front/src/app/workers/track.ts apps/fxc-front/src/app/workers/track.test.ts apps/fxc-front/package.json apps/fxc-front/src/app/modules.d.ts
Refactored runtime horizontal and vertical speed calculations to return derived metrics and bounds in single sliding-window passes.	Computes vertical speed from endpoint altitude deltas and accumulates altitude/speed extrema without an intermediate delta array. Computes ground speed from cumulative geographic distance, while collecting coordinate, distance, and speed bounds. Handles empty, single-point, stationary, and duplicate-timestamp tracks safely. Updates decoded runtime-track construction and adds unit tests for speed, bounds, smoothing, and degenerate inputs.	libs/common/src/lib/runtime-track.ts libs/common/src/lib/runtime-track.test.ts
Updated dependency metadata after removing the altitude filtering package.	Removes moving-median from the frontend manifest, type declarations, and lockfile.	pnpm-lock.yaml apps/fxc-front/package.json apps/fxc-front/src/app/modules.d.ts

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Walkthrough

The changes replace the altitude moving-median filter with a Hampel-style filter and add dedicated ground- and vertical-speed computations for runtime tracks. The worker uses the returned altitude bounds, and tests cover filtering and speed calculations.

Changes

Flight track processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime track speed calculations libs/common/src/lib/runtime-track.ts, libs/common/src/lib/runtime-track.test.ts	Dedicated ground- and vertical-speed computations return speed arrays and associated bounds. protoToRuntimeTrack uses these results. Tests cover empty inputs, speed values, bounds, duplicate timestamps, and sliding-window behavior.
Altitude spike filtering apps/fxc-front/src/app/workers/track.ts, apps/fxc-front/src/app/workers/track.test.ts, apps/fxc-front/package.json, apps/fxc-front/src/app/modules.d.ts	The worker replaces the moving-median filter with an in-place Hampel-style filter that returns altitude bounds. Tests cover spikes, dropouts, track profiles, and edge cases. The moving-median dependency and its ambient declaration are removed.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b51d9

The reported altitude-dropout problem is fixed, and no remaining issue identified here blocks merging after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b51d9

A degenerate track may make the new altitude filter spend excessive time processing data, potentially delaying track updates in the affected browser. The worker’s access and message boundaries have not expanded, and no broader service or data exposure was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Degenerate altitude and timestamp arrays can make the new worker filter perform quadratic neighbor scans, delaying processing of that client’s tracks. Whether an attacker can deliver such a track to another user, and the net worst-case change from the previous filter, remain unestablished.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated availability effect is confined to processing in the affected browser’s track worker; the available path does not establish cross-user, server, tenant, or data-store impact.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If an adversary can cause a user to load a crafted fetched track with nonpositive altitudes and equal timestamps, the new neighbor searches can scan much of the track for each fix. Control of another user’s fetched track is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Fetched binary data is decoded into runtime tracks before the client posts them to the worker. The inspected worker path has no input-length or paired-array validation; worker messaging does not confer additional privilege.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — A response is patched atomically by track ID on completion, but an excessively long scan delays that completion. The checked worker dispatch path provides no explicit error or recovery handling for an interrupted computation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Bound examined neighbor entries as well as accepted neighbors, and validate paired array lengths and timestamp assumptions before filtering fetched tracks.

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 4 files.
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In `@apps/fxc-front/src/app/workers/track.ts`:
- Around line 166-168: Update the neighbor filters in the dropout and
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