************************** Radar Input File Name: 17012radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 17510site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 17001gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 10012501.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 25/01/10 Comments: Levees - Southern Line 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) : 40. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 175.743561 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 248.95842 182.735474 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 353.008087 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.59684086km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:levees_17510 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12497. m 41000.5312 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22490.8262 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) 201.146194 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.59684086 km This flight line will take 18.2999992 minutes to fly Data only: 15.1999998 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 12497. m expected to be -57.2206306 r_aircraft_across_track: 15793.9492 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 32.8896065 -91.083725 175.743561 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 32.8896065 -91.083725 Nominal Length of line (km): 201.146194 Flight heading 175.743561 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 32.8789177 -91.2520981 Altitude (m, ft): 12497. 41000.5312 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12467.7637 m Horizontal distance to near range: 4521.76953 m Minimum near range distance: 13247.8281 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 83.1759644 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 88.3799973 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): 3.6731134E+10 34.2085342 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 36.2103539 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.0418483801 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 23.6345234 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 62.1834412 Expected Target Terrain Height: 0. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.0749531 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.8981209 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.0463104 near range, end of image: 31.9775085 -91.123436 far range, end of image: 31.992569 -90.8860168 near swath, beginning of image: 33.7863503 -91.2854614 far swath, beginning of image: 33.8014069 -91.0431747 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -82.2711792 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -18.0239506 HV Received Power: -92.1306381 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.8834057 VV Received Power: -82.2617569 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -18.0145245 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 20.0933418 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 51.6508026 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -18.0239506 Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.0418483801 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: 114 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22490.8262 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.9526825 Far Range Look Angle: 65.2456665 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.6926498 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 49.1307259 Near range distance: 17088.1699 Nadir distance: 12449.0264 PRE Longitude : -91.3487625 Latitude: 33.9631424 PRE loxodromic heading 175.740356 STA Longitude : -91.332695 Latitude: 33.7832413 STA loxodromic heading 175.741119 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22490.8262 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.930891 Far Range Look Angle: 65.2198105 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.6926498 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 42.5298843 STO Longitude : -91.1746445 Latitude: 31.9729614 STO loxodromic heading 175.749847 Distance from PRE: 221.300003 km POS Longitude : -91.1730652 Latitude: 31.9548855 Distance from PRE: 223.300003 km POS loxodromic heading 175.72525 *****************************