************************** Radar Input File Name: 35040radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 35040site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 35001gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 08011701.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 17/01/08 Comments: 39kft, +5 deg. 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: 5. 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) : 210. 350. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 408.207245 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 189.905029 340.064514 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 9.93548584 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 6.82481623km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:Rosamond35040 ************************** Aircraft height planned 11887. m 38999.2266 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22039.6895 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) 61.6496315 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 6.82481623 km This flight line will take 6.30000019 minutes to fly Data only: 4.9000001 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 11887. m expected to be -57.9587288 Center of image Swath: 34.75 -118.066658 Nominal Length of line (km): 61.6496315 Flight heading 350. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 34.7735443 -117.904099 Altitude (m, ft): 11887. 38999.2266 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 11187.7568 m Horizontal distance to near range: 4058.93799 m Minimum near range distance: 11674.0811 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 74.6366806 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 77.8810883 Number of Minor PRFs per PRF: 2 desired PRF major 344.487152 desired PRI major 2902.86597 allowed PRI major 2904. Initial Estimate of Minor PRF(hz): 688.974304 Initial Estimate of Minor PRI (microsec): 1451.43298 Major PRI must be an integer multiple of 4 Nominal aircraft speed of 210. Major Delta PRI of 2 Implies Minor PRF of 688.705261 hz and a PRI of 1452. microsecond Major PRI is 2904. Updated Ground_Spacing (ft): 2.0007813 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 0.609839976 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: 0.0275482088 Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Duty Cycle: 0.0275482088 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): 19139120. 18.2524872 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 1088 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): 38278240. 36.5049744 Maximum Data Rate to JBOD (MB/s): 120. Estimated Total Science Data Volume for this run (bytes,Gbytes): 1.1253803E+10 10.4809208 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 742.812073 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.0933739617 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 657.973267 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1140.63208 Expected Target Terrain Height: 660. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.3374634 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.0751629 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.1779137 near range, end of image: 35.0408554 -118.006378 far range, end of image: 35.0063591 -118.244209 near swath, beginning of image: 34.4934883 -117.890228 far swath, beginning of image: 34.4589882 -118.126495 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -79.9259033 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.5306797 HV Received Power: -90.8292694 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.4340534 VV Received Power: -80.4313049 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -17.0360889 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 18.6327362 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 53.9306068 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -16.5306797 Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.0933739617 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: 102 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 102 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22039.6895 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.3459682 Far Range Look Angle: 67.2468719 Optimum Steering Angle: 54.0239792 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 1140.63208 PRE Longitude : -117.826897 Latitude: 34.4109726 PRE loxodromic heading -9.99809933 STA Longitude : -117.845802 Latitude: 34.4998398 STA loxodromic heading -10.0056572 Distance from PRE: 10. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 104 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22039.6895 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.1006279 Far Range Look Angle: 66.975853 Optimum Steering Angle: 54.0239792 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 758.924744 STO Longitude : -117.963448 Latitude: 35.048481 STO loxodromic heading -10.0109625 Distance from PRE: 71.8000031 km POS Longitude : -117.978706 Latitude: 35.1195831 Distance from PRE: 79.8000031 km POS loxodromic heading -10.0043612 *****************************