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Planning flight lines for a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) must be done carefully, as SAR is a side-looking instrument.
Therefore, the location of the image swath is a function of the altitude of the instrument, the elevation of the ground, and the angle at which the desired swath is to be illuminated, as well as the swath width given by the radar operating mode.
For an airborne instrument, the image swath is quite narrow (on the order of 15km); a relatively small error in position can result is missing a large fraction of the desired image swath.
The UAVSAR flight planning system also sets up the radar for the desired mode of operation.
Track UAVSAR flight (within US airspace)
You can track UAVSAR (on the G3) in real time by clicking on the 'go' button below. Clicking will open a
new window (the flight-tracking website is not a JPL website). If the G3 is not in flight, the website will indicate the last known position. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
(from www.flightaware.com) :
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