************************** Radar Input File Name: 10401radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 10401site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 10401gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00035301.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 53/03/00 Comments: Southwest Vatnajokull Glacier, Iceland 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. 104.195 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 203.437347 113.91774 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 350.277252 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.29824352km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:Icelnd_10401 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22319.0938 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) 140.000488 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.29824352 km This flight line will take 13.6999998 minutes to fly Data only: 10.6000004 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: 15529.3008 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 64.064064 -17.2823868 104.195 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 64.064064 -17.2823868 Nominal Length of line (km): 140.000488 Flight heading 104.195 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 63.9289856 -17.3600197 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12496.7998 m Voids in nadir height profile. Values set to last value not greater than the null value Horizontal distance to near range: 4329.93896 m Minimum near range distance: 12508.3955 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 83.3696747 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 83.4470367 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): 2.56151306E+10 23.8559494 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 491.699066 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 2.78305888 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.838974655 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1631.40454 Expected Target Terrain Height: 491. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.6100178 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.2811928 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.2930298 near range, end of image: 63.8063927 -15.9555092 far range, end of image: 64.0005035 -15.8440351 near swath, beginning of image: 64.1143265 -18.7363052 far swath, beginning of image: 64.3084259 -18.6235943 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -82.032814 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -18.2929153 HV Received Power: -91.757782 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -28.0178814 VV Received Power: -81.8959961 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -18.1561012 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 19.4937038 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 49.8334122 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -18.2929153 Avg terrain slope (deg) 2.78305888 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 4. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -4. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 4. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 110 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 110 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22319.0938 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.0946293 Far Range Look Angle: 66.0527039 Optimum Steering Angle: 52.6164703 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 601.37085 Near range distance: 16488.584 Nadir distance: 11983.8867 find STA: 63.9289856 -17.3600197 ,shift: 70.0002441 PRE Longitude : -19.1510181 Latitude: 64.1159897 PRE loxodromic heading 103.059746 STA Longitude : -18.751009 Latitude: 64.0763474 STA loxodromic heading 104.237587 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22319.0938 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.1115551 Far Range Look Angle: 64.8777084 Optimum Steering Angle: 52.6164703 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 0.838974655 STO Longitude : -15.9769878 Latitude: 63.7804413 STO loxodromic heading 104.245224 Distance from PRE: 160. km POS Longitude : -15.9376955 Latitude: 63.7760048 Distance from PRE: 162. km POS loxodromic heading 103.684097 *****************************