************************** Radar Input File Name: 30701radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 30707site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 30701gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 08071701.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 17/07/08 Comments: Resurgent Dome, Long Valley 41kft 0 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. 307. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 222.612106 304.450409 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 2.54959106 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 6.35187531km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:LongValley_30707 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12449. m 40843.0508 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 21751.3203 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) 70.7037506 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 6.35187531 km This flight line will take 8.89999962 minutes to fly Data only: 5.30000019 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 12449. m expected to be -50.9510002 Center of image Swath: 37.6798363 -118.896011 Nominal Length of line (km): 70.7037506 Flight heading 307. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 37.7854233 -118.795715 Altitude (m, ft): 12449. 40843.0508 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 9739.17676 m Horizontal distance to near range: 3809.00391 m Minimum near range distance: 10516.6865 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 64.9727936 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 70.1597824 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): 1.28075653E+10 11.9279747 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 2296.74023 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 2.95453787 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1732.36218 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3504.41675 Expected Target Terrain Height: 2000. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.8246098 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.8394413 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.9162064 near range, end of image: 37.9493904 -119.142479 far range, end of image: 37.79282 -119.291313 near swath, beginning of image: 37.565937 -118.502586 far swath, beginning of image: 37.409359 -118.650658 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -78.408783 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -15.5333185 HV Received Power: -89.9884186 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.1129456 VV Received Power: -79.0198517 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.1443863 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 18.1275597 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 51.1486168 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -15.5333185 Avg terrain slope (deg) 2.95453787 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 8. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 8. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 100 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 100 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 21751.3203 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.716156 Far Range Look Angle: 67.4211044 Optimum Steering Angle: 54.1031532 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 1732.36218 Near range distance: 14989.6221 Nadir distance: 10590.7607 PRE Longitude : -118.295349 Latitude: 37.4846764 PRE loxodromic heading -52.9591446 STA Longitude : -118.475952 Latitude: 37.5932617 STA loxodromic heading -53.0132637 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 96 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 21751.3203 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 21.1207008 Far Range Look Angle: 68.9043961 Optimum Steering Angle: 54.1031532 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 3491.1084 STO Longitude : -119.119507 Latitude: 37.9753952 STO loxodromic heading -53.014122 Distance from PRE: 90.8000031 km POS Longitude : -119.192268 Latitude: 38.0187492 Distance from PRE: 98.8000031 km POS loxodromic heading -53.0236588 *****************************