************************** Radar Input File Name: 17012radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 26512site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 27001gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00021701.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 17/02/00 Comments: 7th San Andreas line from the Mexican border (PI: Paul Lundgren, Eric Fielding, Andrea Donnellan) 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) : 10. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 265. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 228.750778 263.389771 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 1.61022949 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.17131615km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:SanAnd_26512 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12497. m 41000.5312 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22245.0547 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) 237.342636 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.17131615 km This flight line will take 21. minutes to fly Data only: 17.8999996 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: 15416.2842 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 33.237381 -116.189354 265. shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 33.237381 -116.189354 Nominal Length of line (km): 237.342636 Flight heading 265. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 33.3758812 -116.203796 Altitude (m, ft): 12497. 41000.5312 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12496.4346 m Voids in nadir height profile. Values set to last value not greater than the null value Horizontal distance to near range: 4336.33496 m Minimum near range distance: 11488.2607 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 83.3672409 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 76.6414337 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): 4.32557425E+10 40.2850494 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 358.000092 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: -0.990890741 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.501731932 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1508.12207 Expected Target Terrain Height: 700. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.7037983 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.8197899 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.796299 near range, end of image: 33.2376328 -117.466873 far range, end of image: 33.0376854 -117.446083 near swath, beginning of image: 33.4241333 -114.929977 far swath, beginning of image: 33.2241936 -114.909142 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -81.9810791 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -17.9142208 HV Received Power: -91.9102325 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.8433819 VV Received Power: -82.0086823 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -17.9418335 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 19.7363739 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 52.5516319 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -17.9142208 Avg terrain slope (deg) -0.990890741 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: 112 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 112 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22245.0547 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.4641895 Far Range Look Angle: 65.2222519 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.5607414 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 224.517899 Near range distance: 16788.377 Nadir distance: 12426.1592 PRE Longitude : -114.717606 Latitude: 33.478157 PRE loxodromic heading -94.9550018 STA Longitude : -114.931969 Latitude: 33.4626274 STA loxodromic heading -95.0142365 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22245.0547 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.1375046 Far Range Look Angle: 64.8213959 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.5607414 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 0.501731932 STO Longitude : -117.472198 Latitude: 33.2498779 STO loxodromic heading -95.0146484 Distance from PRE: 257.600006 km POS Longitude : -117.493576 Latitude: 33.2483063 Distance from PRE: 259.600006 km POS loxodromic heading -94.9979477 *****************************