************************** Radar Input File Name: 17022radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 35803site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 14001gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 08072401.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 24/07/08 Comments: Long Valley 3 scan angles. 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: 20. Second: 0. Third: -20. Fourth: 0. ***Radar Mode Label does not agree with Radar Setup Radar Mode: POLSAR Xmit_Antenna_Select: 1 Xmit_Pol_Select: 3 Rcv_Array_Select: 1 Rcv_Buffer_Select: 3 Scan_Angle_Count: 3 Method: Center Expected Wind Speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 10. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 358. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 214.304855 356.044281 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 1.95571899 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 6.07710791km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:LongValley_35803 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12497. m 41000.5312 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 18322.2734 Pad of : 0 of DW is added to DW DW Increment : 10 DW Increment corresponds to : 900. m The Range Swath is : 13.4906597 km Estimated Data Window Duration: 100 microseconds This includes 18 microseconds for the pulse length Maximum Data Window Duration: 100 microseconds Minimum Data Window Duration: 50 microseconds Flight plan length in km (not including shortbit) 70.1542206 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 6.07710791 km This flight line will take 8.80000019 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 12497. m expected to be -50.9029999 Center of image Swath: 37.7426987 -119.012497 Nominal Length of line (km): 70.1542206 Flight heading 358. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 37.7466354 -118.867355 Altitude (m, ft): 12497. 41000.5312 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 10432.1494 m Horizontal distance to near range: 3608.20972 m Minimum near range distance: 9661.19922 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 18 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 23. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 69.5958099 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 64.4525833 Number of Minor PRFs per PRF: 6 desired PRF major 302.109741 desired PRI major 3310.05542 allowed PRI major 3312. Initial Estimate of Minor PRF(hz): 1812.65845 Initial Estimate of Minor PRI (microsec): 551.675903 Major PRI must be an integer multiple of 12 Nominal aircraft speed of 221. Major Delta PRI of 2 Implies Minor PRF of 1811.59412 hz and a PRI of 552. microsecond Major PRI is 3312. Updated Ground_Spacing (ft): 2.4014101 Maximum Major PRI: 3500 Minimum Major PRI: 3000 ground spacing is less than half the azimuth antenna length Azimuth Antenna Length is 1.5 m ground spacing is 0.731952012 m Nominal Pulse Lenth is being used: 18 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: 0.0434782617 CTU adds 6. microseconds in calculation of duty cycle Pulse Length (microsec): 18 Duty Cycle: 0.0434782617 Maximum Duty Cycle : 0.0500000007 Science Data Rate: Sampling Rate Mhz 180. Data Window Length (microseconds) 100 Number of Samples per Pulse: 18000. Number of Blocks in Pulse: 140 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: 18760 Data Rate per receiver channel (B/s, MB/s): 33985504. 32.4111023 Maximum data rate per receiver channel is: 35. The PRI_MIN such that data rate does not exceed the allowed data rate: 3067 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 2160 PRI Min: 3067 Final PRI Min: 3072 Total Data Rate (B/s, MB/s): 67971008. 64.8222046 Maximum Data Rate to JBOD (MB/s): 120. Estimated Total Science Data Volume for this run (bytes,Gbytes): 2.16147804E+10 20.1303329 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 2497.3606 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.656675875 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1948.04712 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3291.44604 Expected Target Terrain Height: 2500. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.4103909 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.1048222 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.2346992 near range, end of image: 38.0613937 -118.92202 far range, end of image: 38.0556259 -119.130859 near swath, beginning of image: 37.4296608 -118.895119 far swath, beginning of image: 37.423893 -119.102203 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -81.4889145 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.7601891 HV Received Power: -92.1965942 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.4678688 VV Received Power: -81.9781189 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -17.2493935 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 15.895257 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 18 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 52.7938728 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -16.7601891 Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.656675875 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: 92 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 92 microsec, Data Window Duration: 100 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 18322.2734 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.8658657 Far Range Look Angle: 66.65345 Optimum Steering Angle: 53.4505501 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 2869.02734 Near range distance: 13790.4531 Nadir distance: 9294.52441 PRE Longitude : -118.84565 Latitude: 37.2505798 PRE loxodromic heading -1.99845004 STA Longitude : -118.853523 Latitude: 37.4307632 STA loxodromic heading -1.99088442 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 100 microsec, Data Window Duration: 100 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 18322.2734 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 18.9064636 Far Range Look Angle: 64.341568 Optimum Steering Angle: 53.4505501 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 1948.05054 STO Longitude : -118.881485 Latitude: 38.063839 STO loxodromic heading -2.00132728 Distance from PRE: 90.3000031 km POS Longitude : -118.884674 Latitude: 38.1359558 Distance from PRE: 98.3000031 km POS loxodromic heading -1.9954741 *****************************