************************** Radar Input File Name: 02501radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 02501site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 06001gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 08051601.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 16/05/08 Comments: Ocean Multi-angle 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: -20. Third: 0. 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: 2 Method: Center Expected Wind Speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 10. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 25. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 211.630722 24.0739899 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 0.926010132 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.53605223km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:Buoy46053_02501 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12497. m 41000.5312 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 17409.6289 Pad of : 0 of DW is added to DW DW Increment : 10 DW Increment corresponds to : 900. m The Range Swath is : 11.9916983 km Estimated Data Window Duration: 100 microseconds This includes 24 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) 83.0721054 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.53605223 km This flight line will take 9.80000019 minutes to fly Data only: 6.30000019 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: 34.2400017 -119.849998 Nominal Length of line (km): 83.0721054 Flight heading 25. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 34.1895676 -119.720016 Altitude (m, ft): 12497. 41000.5312 Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 11132.2139 m Voids in nadir height profile. Values set to last value not greater than the null value Horizontal distance to near range: 4497.41846 m Minimum near range distance: 12432.6348 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 24 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 29. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 74.2661438 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 82.9416122 Number of Minor PRFs per PRF: 4 desired PRF major 302.109741 desired PRI major 3310.05542 allowed PRI major 3312. Initial Estimate of Minor PRF(hz): 1208.43896 Initial Estimate of Minor PRI (microsec): 827.513855 Major PRI must be an integer multiple of 8 Nominal aircraft speed of 221. Major Delta PRI of 2 Implies Minor PRF of 1207.72949 hz and a PRI of 828. microsecond Major PRI is 3312. Updated Ground_Spacing (ft): 2.4014101 Maximum Major PRI: 3500 Minimum Major PRI: 2000 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: 24 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): 24 Duty Cycle: 0.0289855078 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): 22657006. 21.6074047 Maximum data rate per receiver channel is: 35. The PRI_MIN such that data rate does not exceed the allowed data rate: 2044 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 1920 PRI Min: 2044 Final PRI Min: 2048 Total Data Rate (B/s, MB/s): 45314012. 43.2148094 Maximum Data Rate to JBOD (MB/s): 120. Estimated Total Science Data Volume for this run (bytes,Gbytes): 1.71286968E+10 15.952342 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 130.373688 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.701341867 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.610592961 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1012.45074 Expected Target Terrain Height: 100. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -14.5232983 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -26.0959606 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -15.688653 near range, end of image: 34.5460281 -119.572662 far range, end of image: 34.6123924 -119.744728 near swath, beginning of image: 33.8672371 -119.954491 far swath, beginning of image: 33.933609 -120.125183 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -85.2382584 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -20.4610615 HV Received Power: -93.6426849 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -28.86549 VV Received Power: -83.8505936 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -19.0733929 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 18.1803169 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 24 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 45.8659859 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -20.4610615 Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.701341867 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -6. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 2. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 114 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 100 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 17409.6289 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.7898617 Far Range Look Angle: 60.2932167 Optimum Steering Angle: 46.5673294 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 340.602936 Near range distance: 17088.1699 Nadir distance: 12497. PRE Longitude : -120.000916 Latitude: 33.6864853 PRE loxodromic heading 24.9815807 STA Longitude : -119.909714 Latitude: 33.8500175 STA loxodromic heading 25.0006123 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 108 microsec, Data Window Duration: 100 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 17409.6289 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.9906216 Far Range Look Angle: 61.849884 Optimum Steering Angle: 46.5673294 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 729.477173 STO Longitude : -119.52668 Latitude: 34.5292778 STO loxodromic heading 25.0047684 Distance from PRE: 103.199997 km POS Longitude : -119.489777 Latitude: 34.5947113 Distance from PRE: 111.199997 km POS loxodromic heading 25.0153751 *****************************