************************** Radar Input File Name: 12701radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 12712site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 30701gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 08071501.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 15/07/08 Comments: Kings Canyon 41kft 6 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: Endpoints Expected Wind Speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 10. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 130.438095 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 220.430145 133.030014 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 357.408081 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 6.7536931km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:KingsCanyon12712 ************************** Aircraft height planned 13110. m 43011.6797 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 21996.9238 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) 80.3513489 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 6.7536931 km This flight line will take 9.60000038 minutes to fly Data only: 6.0999999 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 13110. m expected to be -50.6265984 Center of image Swath: 36.5324783 -118.703087 Nominal Length of line (km): 80.3513489 Flight heading 130.438095 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 36.429203 -118.811951 Altitude (m, ft): 13110. 43011.6797 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 11481.9688 m Horizontal distance to near range: 4055.07568 m Minimum near range distance: 10954.0186 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 76.5994492 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 73.0773468 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): 1.47407831E+10 13.7284241 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 2151.03809 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 7.34893036 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1201.16931 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3384.80713 Expected Target Terrain Height: 2000. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -15.6236382 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.1952782 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -16.2575397 near range, end of image: 36.221653 -118.441986 far range, end of image: 36.372551 -118.283127 near swath, beginning of image: 36.6913681 -119.125443 far swath, beginning of image: 36.8422546 -118.965614 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -78.7498398 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -15.4949341 HV Received Power: -90.1670227 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -26.9121151 VV Received Power: -79.5426331 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.2877254 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 19.4738922 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 43.2761307 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -15.4949341 Avg terrain slope (deg) 7.34893036 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 8. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 6. ----- 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: 21996.9238 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 18.1717739 Far Range Look Angle: 64.6292725 Optimum Steering Angle: 50.625061 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 1348.97534 Near range distance: 16788.377 Nadir distance: 12687.9941 PRE Longitude : -119.324539 Latitude: 36.7803421 PRE loxodromic heading 130.399734 STA Longitude : -119.154015 Latitude: 36.6635666 STA loxodromic heading 130.450226 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 104 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 21996.9238 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.0811539 Far Range Look Angle: 66.9368515 Optimum Steering Angle: 50.625061 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 2478.66309 STO Longitude : -118.473671 Latitude: 36.1916695 STO loxodromic heading 130.444122 Distance from PRE: 100.400002 km POS Longitude : -118.406013 Latitude: 36.144886 Distance from PRE: 108.400002 km POS loxodromic heading 130.456512 *****************************