************************** Radar Input File Name: 03501radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 03501site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 03501gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00031602.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 16/03/00 Comments: Slumgullion, CO Antenna Transmit Cal Pulse Enabled Antenna Receive Cal Pulse Enabled Sniffer Pulse Enabled Calibration Pulse Interval: 255 pulses BFPQ compression: 8, Block Size 128 Targeted steering angles relative to planned track angle: First: 0. Second: 0. Third: 0. Fourth: 0. Radar set up for POLSAR Method: Center Expected Wind Speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 40. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 35. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 181.740479 32.8096809 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 2.19031906 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 5.45389605km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:Slumgl_03501 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 21176.082 Pad of : 0 of DW is added to DW DW Increment : 10 DW Increment corresponds to : 900. m The Range Swath is : 16.4885864 km Estimated Data Window Duration: 150 microseconds This includes 40 microseconds for the pulse length Maximum Data Window Duration: 150 microseconds Minimum Data Window Duration: 50 microseconds Flight plan length in km (not including shortbit) 51.211792 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 5.45389605 km This flight line will take 7. minutes to fly Data only: 3.9000001 minutes to fly (excluding PRE-STA and STO-POS) Latitude range: 20. to 66.5 Season: 1 (0-all, 1-winter, 2-summer) Temperature at altitude 12496.7998 m expected to be -57.220871 r_aircraft_across_track: 13853.5088 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 37.9973297 -107.207535 35. shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 37.9973297 -107.207535 Nominal Length of line (km): 51.211792 Flight heading 35. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 37.9256363 -107.0784 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 9503.02441 m Horizontal distance to near range: 3258.21973 m Minimum near range distance: 9172.75098 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 63.3973541 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 61.1940117 Number of Minor PRFs per PRF: 2 desired PRF major 362.531708 desired PRI major 2758.37939 allowed PRI major 2760. Initial Estimate of Minor PRF(hz): 725.063416 Initial Estimate of Minor PRI (microsec): 1379.1897 Major PRI must be an integer multiple of 4 Nominal aircraft speed of 221. Major Delta PRI of 2 Implies Minor PRF of 724.637695 hz and a PRI of 1380. microsecond Major PRI is 2760. Updated Ground_Spacing (ft): 2.00117493 Maximum Major PRI: 3500 Minimum Major PRI: 1000 ground spacing is less than half the azimuth antenna length Azimuth Antenna Length is 1.5 m ground spacing is 0.60995996 m Nominal Pulse Lenth is being used: 40 Pulse Length Increment (microsec) is 2 Pulse Length Maximum (microsec) is 50 Pulse Length Minimum (microsec) is 4 Receiver Delay: 5. microseconds Final duty rate: 0.0333333351 CTU adds 6. microseconds in calculation of duty cycle Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Duty Cycle: 0.0333333351 Maximum Duty Cycle : 0.0500000007 Science Data Rate: Sampling Rate Mhz 180. Data Window Length (microseconds) 150 Number of Samples per Pulse: 27000. Number of Blocks in Pulse: 210 Number of header bytes per pulse: 700 Number of bits per sample: 8 Number of bits per block: 1024 Number of bytes per block: 128 Number of bytes per pulse: 27790 Data Rate per receiver channel (B/s, MB/s): 20137682. 19.2047901 Maximum data rate per receiver channel is: 35. The PRI_MIN such that data rate does not exceed the allowed data rate: 1514 The PRI_Min such that the ground spacing is less than half the Azimuth Antenna Length 1034 The PRI_Min such that the Maximum Duty Cycle 0.0500000007 is not exceeded is 1600 PRI Min: 1600 Final PRI Min: 1600 Total Data Rate (B/s, MB/s): 40275364. 38.4095802 Maximum Data Rate to JBOD (MB/s): 120. Estimated Total Science Data Volume for this run (bytes,Gbytes): 9.4244352E+09 8.77718925 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3330.49854 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 4.87041378 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 2809.34863 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3688.86499 Expected Target Terrain Height: 3525. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.7537613 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.0270557 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.8178444 near range, end of image: 38.131443 -106.940926 far range, end of image: 38.2408867 -107.138962 near swath, beginning of image: 37.7534409 -107.275909 far swath, beginning of image: 37.8628922 -107.472923 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -78.3040619 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.4909267 HV Received Power: -89.4982529 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.6851254 VV Received Power: -78.6533356 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.8402081 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 16.7149353 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 51.0619164 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -16.4909267 Avg terrain slope (deg) 4.87041378 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 8. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 8. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 92 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 92 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 21176.082 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.1868858 Far Range Look Angle: 69.0331497 Optimum Steering Angle: 55.9323311 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 3373.66406 Near range distance: 13790.4531 Nadir distance: 8999.15332 find STA: 37.9256363 -107.0784 ,shift: 25.605896 PRE Longitude : -107.374603 Latitude: 37.5886497 PRE loxodromic heading 34.8882599 STA Longitude : -107.245049 Latitude: 37.7365112 STA loxodromic heading 35.0068932 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 90 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 21176.082 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.4283867 Far Range Look Angle: 69.290451 Optimum Steering Angle: 55.9323311 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 2977.07446 STO Longitude : -106.911362 Latitude: 38.1147766 STO loxodromic heading 35.010067 Distance from PRE: 71.3000031 km POS Longitude : -106.898277 Latitude: 38.1295357 Distance from PRE: 73.3000031 km POS loxodromic heading 34.9395447 *****************************