************************** Radar Input File Name: 16801radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 16801site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 16801gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00037201.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 72/03/00 Comments: Honshu Volcanoes, Japan 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. 167.917999 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 245.04895 175.793762 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 352.124237 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 6.79612398km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:JapanV_16801 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22022.4609 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) 62.1532478 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 6.79612398 km This flight line will take 7.80000019 minutes to fly Data only: 4.69999981 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: 15080.3447 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 37.6181107 140.260666 167.917999 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 37.6181107 140.260666 Nominal Length of line (km): 62.1532478 Flight heading 167.917999 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 37.5895348 140.093597 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 11975.0273 m Horizontal distance to near range: 4045.57715 m Minimum near range distance: 11850.71 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 79.8887863 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 79.059433 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): 1.1357653E+10 10.5776386 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP *** The difference between input nominal ground height and measured ground height in imaged swath is -524.226501 m If this is incorrect, the flight plan should be re-run *** Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 792.773499 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.217725039 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 256.42218 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1732.90576 Expected Target Terrain Height: 1317. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.5168591 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.9220238 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.6192493 near range, end of image: 37.32341 140.212494 far range, end of image: 37.3649788 140.455719 near swath, beginning of image: 37.8710632 140.06424 far swath, beginning of image: 37.9126244 140.30925 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -80.6786346 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.9946079 HV Received Power: -91.2689285 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.5849056 VV Received Power: -80.9788055 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -17.2947769 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 19.2947884 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 51.0754738 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -16.9946079 Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.217725039 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 6. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -4. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 6. ----- 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: 22022.4609 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 18.5360603 Far Range Look Angle: 65.1627274 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.2931976 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 336.469757 Near range distance: 16488.584 Nadir distance: 12159.3877 find STA: 37.5895348 140.093597 ,shift: 31.0766239 PRE Longitude : 139.971802 Latitude: 38.0394821 PRE loxodromic heading 167.869766 STA Longitude : 140.019669 Latitude: 37.863327 STA loxodromic heading 167.920273 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 110 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22022.4609 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 18.5299683 Far Range Look Angle: 65.155014 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.2931976 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 270.580017 STO Longitude : 140.167282 Latitude: 37.315731 STO loxodromic heading 167.914993 Distance from PRE: 82.3000031 km POS Longitude : 140.171997 Latitude: 37.298111 Distance from PRE: 84.3000031 km POS loxodromic heading 167.891098 *****************************