************************** Radar Input File Name: 17012radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 23303site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 03901gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 09080601.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 06/08/09 Comments: Pennsylvania potential carbon sequestration 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: Endpoints Expected Wind Speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 10. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 233.895645 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 230.884903 233.511902 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 0.383743286 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.3840785km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:pensyl_23303 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12497. m 41000.5312 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22368.8086 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) 214.438248 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.3840785 km This flight line will take 19.2999992 minutes to fly Data only: 16.2000008 minutes to fly (excluding PRE-STA and STO-POS) Latitude range: 20. to 66.5 Season: 2 (0-all, 1-winter, 2-summer) Temperature at altitude 12497. m expected to be -50.9029999 Center of image Swath: 40.3170853 -79.696167 Nominal Length of line (km): 214.438248 Flight heading 233.895645 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 40.4306145 -79.8045654 Altitude (m, ft): 12497. 41000.5312 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12172.6113 m Horizontal distance to near range: 4425.92432 m Minimum near range distance: 12629.3135 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 81.2069244 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 84.2537155 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): 3.91476552E+10 36.459095 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 381.783142 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.0240734611 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 264.199921 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 545.475708 Expected Target Terrain Height: 350. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.2648506 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.0006771 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.145977 near range, end of image: 39.8250427 -80.7838745 far range, end of image: 39.6621857 -80.6300201 near swath, beginning of image: 40.9628792 -78.7467041 far swath, beginning of image: 40.8000565 -78.5902405 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -81.6231689 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -17.6225014 HV Received Power: -91.7869644 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.7862949 VV Received Power: -81.7345886 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -17.7339249 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 19.6262875 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 52.6669502 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -17.6225014 Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.0240734611 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: 22368.8086 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.4081879 Far Range Look Angle: 66.0607681 Optimum Steering Angle: 52.6910248 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 431.760223 Near range distance: 16488.584 Nadir distance: 11867.1377 PRE Longitude : -78.5826492 Latitude: 41.1009521 PRE loxodromic heading -126.057152 STA Longitude : -78.7750015 Latitude: 40.9949913 STA loxodromic heading -126.120056 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 112 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22368.8086 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.9599533 Far Range Look Angle: 65.5432892 Optimum Steering Angle: 52.6910248 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 336.160034 STO Longitude : -80.800705 Latitude: 39.8382378 STO loxodromic heading -126.120621 Distance from PRE: 234.600006 km POS Longitude : -80.8195801 Latitude: 39.8276215 Distance from PRE: 236.600006 km POS loxodromic heading -126.115868 *****************************