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Planning flight lines for a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) must be done carefully, as SAR is a side-looking instrument.
Therefore, the location of the image swath is a function of the altitude of the instrument, the elevation of the ground, and the angle at which the desired swath is to be illuminated, as well as the swath width given by the radar operating mode.
For an airborne instrument, the image swath is quite narrow (on the order of 15km); a relatively small error in position can result is missing a large fraction of the desired image swath.
The UAVSAR flight planning system also sets up the radar for the desired mode of operation.
| 26 June, 2008
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| Science Sites: plan10. Rosamond 5 racetreacks: quad pol standard, 2 scanangles, 3 scanangles (repeat). Test strip map mode and monopulse mode. Science sites: Sierra Madre Fire Scar, Leona Valley. | |
| 23 June, 2008
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| Science Sites: plan10. Rosamond 5 racetreacks: quad pol standard, 2 scanangles, 3 scanangles (repeat). Test strip map mode and monopulse mode. Science sites: Sierra Madre Fire Scar, Leona Valley. | |
| 10 June, 2008
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| Science Sites: Plan 6. Ocean Lines | |
| 12 June, 2008
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| Science Sites: Plan 3. Forest Site over Kings Canyon |
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| 05 June, 2008
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| Science Sites: Plan 8. Lost Hills, Sierra Madre Fire Scar, Leo
na Valley, Multi Scan Angles. | |
| 29 May, 2008
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| Science Sites: plan7. SF bay area, Sierra Madre Fire Scar, Salt
on Sea, multiangle test over Buoy. | |
| 21 May, 2008
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| Science Sites, Plan 1: San Francisco, San Andreas Fault, Haywar
d Fault | |
| 16 May, 2008
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| Science Sites, Plan 5: Salton Sea, Earthquake faults, fire scars. | |
| 05 May, 2008
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| Science Sites, Plan 4: Mt. St. Helens. Refuel at Portland Inter
national Airport. Long Valley during transit North. Lost Hills during transit so
uth. | |
| 28 Apr, 2008
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| Science Sites: plan1. San Andreas and Hayward Fault. | |
| 23/24 Apr, 2008 night flight (9pm takeoff)
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| Engineering Flight, Rosamond Calibration Array. Polarimetric calibration, repeat-pass lines, multiple scan angle counts. | |
| 31 March, 2008
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| Science Sites, Plan 4: Mt. St. Helens. Refuel at Portland International Airport. Optional data collection over California Central Valley for INU bias estimation. | |
| 24 March, 2008
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| Science Sites, Plan 4: Mt. St. Helens. Refuel at Portland International Airport. Optional data collection over California Central Valley for INU bias estimation. | |
| 21 March, 2008
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| Engineering Flight: Rosamond Calibration Array and surrounding
. Science site: Salton Sea | |
| 06 March, 2008
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| Engineering Flight: Rosamond Calibration Array. | |
| 03 March, 2008
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| Science Sites: plan 2. Salton Sea, Lost Hills, and engineering tests. | |
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20 February, 2008 |
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Science Sites: plan1. SF bay area, San Andreas Fault and Hayward Fault. The planned lines are an exact repeat of those on Feb12, 2008.
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12 February, 2008 |
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Science Sites: plan1. SF bay area, San Andreas Fault and Hayward Fault.
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08 February, 2008 |
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Engineering Flight. Rosamond Corner Reflector Array. Test Beam Steering. Lines at 39Kft. 20Km between PRE and STA waypoints on 170 lines. RFN Caltone on for all lines except one (test ASN). PRF Tracking ON.
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17 January
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| Engineering Flight. Start Automatic mode at Datatake 10. Rosamond Corner Reflector
Array. Test Beam Steering. Lines at 39Kft. 20Km between PRE and STA waypoints on
170 lines. RFN Caltone on for all lines except one (test ASN). PRF Tracking ON.
Last line has RSU. |
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10 December, 2007 |
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6 December
, 2007 |
| | Engineering Flight. Rosamond Corner Reflector Array. Most lines at 39Kft (3 lines at 41kft). All lines planned for GPS
altitudes. 20Km between PRE and STA waypoints on 170 lines. Quad-POL. Full anten
na array. Test PRF tracking and beam steering. RFN Caltone on for most Lines (test ASN on one line). |
| 27 September, 2007 |
| | Engineering Flight, Rosamond Corner Reflector Array.
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18 September 2007 |
| | First Data Collection Flight, Rosamond Corner Reflector Array.
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