************************** Radar Input File Name: 27101radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 27101site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 09001gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 08032701.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 27/03/08 Comments: Mt. St. Helens, Washington 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. 271. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 228.060074 269.192505 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 1.80749512 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.04973745km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:mtsthelens27101 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12497. m 41000.5312 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22173.5488 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) 112.099472 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.04973745 km This flight line will take 12. minutes to fly Data only: 8.5 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 Center of image Swath: 46.1984367 -122.04438 Nominal Length of line (km): 112.099472 Flight heading 271. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 46.3361511 -122.040909 Altitude (m, ft): 12497. 41000.5312 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12324.7891 m Horizontal distance to near range: 4228.65967 m Minimum near range distance: 11692.5127 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 82.2221451 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 78.0040512 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: 0.0289855078 Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Duty Cycle: 0.0289855078 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): 2.05404365E+10 19.1297722 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1096.59973 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.436027974 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 333.181122 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3165.47485 Expected Target Terrain Height: 900. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.0650673 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.1208057 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.9923229 near range, end of image: 46.3046875 -122.768021 far range, end of image: 46.1051788 -122.773033 near swath, beginning of image: 46.2870865 -121.315948 far swath, beginning of image: 46.087574 -121.320961 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -79.9333878 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.2696037 HV Received Power: -91.3098602 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.6460743 VV Received Power: -80.2947311 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.6309471 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 19.1121502 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 52.8227425 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -16.2696037 Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.436027974 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: 106 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 106 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22173.5488 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.29776 Far Range Look Angle: 66.5859833 Optimum Steering Angle: 53.25877 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 1361.53564 Near range distance: 15888.999 Nadir distance: 11114.1992 PRE Longitude : -121.053505 Latitude: 46.3216019 PRE loxodromic heading -88.9298172 STA Longitude : -121.313164 Latitude: 46.3250351 STA loxodromic heading -89.0211258 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 112 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22173.5488 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 18.8996391 Far Range Look Angle: 64.9294434 Optimum Steering Angle: 53.25877 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 354.650787 STO Longitude : -122.771538 Latitude: 46.3333702 STO loxodromic heading -89.0255127 Distance from PRE: 132.300003 km POS Longitude : -122.875427 Latitude: 46.3345795 Distance from PRE: 140.300003 km POS loxodromic heading -89.0374908 *****************************