************************** Radar Input File Name: 00702radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 00702site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 00702gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00036601.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 66/03/00 Comments: New Orleans levee site, LA 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) : 40. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 7.44000006 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 190.855408 0.0998382568 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 7.3401618 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.59671974km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:gulfco_00702 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22490.7598 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) 70.0004425 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.59671974 km This flight line will take 8.39999962 minutes to fly Data only: 5.30000019 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 12496.7998 m expected to be -57.220871 r_aircraft_across_track: 15793.8428 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 29.9111042 -90.0521317 7.44000006 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 29.9111042 -90.0521317 Nominal Length of line (km): 70.0004425 Flight heading 7.44000006 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 29.8925476 -89.8899307 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12494.751 m Voids in nadir height profile. Values set to last value not greater than the null value Horizontal distance to near range: 4525.15137 m Minimum near range distance: 13279.6504 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 83.3560104 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 88.5923004 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: 1.68482172 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: -0.0752236247 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.500033021 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 5.86457872 Expected Target Terrain Height: 0. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -15.4184036 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -26.732914 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -16.2813358 near range, end of image: 30.2110672 -89.889183 far range, end of image: 30.2373486 -90.1209335 near swath, beginning of image: 29.5847263 -89.9837952 far swath, beginning of image: 29.6110096 -90.2140961 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -84.6888123 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -20.4208794 HV Received Power: -93.1907043 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -28.9227753 VV Received Power: -83.3542252 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -19.0862923 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 20.1228638 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 51.6769409 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -20.4208794 Avg terrain slope (deg) -0.0752236247 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: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22490.7598 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.9026299 Far Range Look Angle: 65.1725693 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.6017189 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 0.826905966 Near range distance: 17088.1699 Nadir distance: 12496.7998 find STA: 29.8925476 -89.8899307 ,shift: 35.0002213 PRE Longitude : -89.9619904 Latitude: 29.4093857 PRE loxodromic heading 7.41767073 STA Longitude : -89.9367218 Latitude: 29.5793629 STA loxodromic heading 7.44392204 Distance from PRE: 19. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22490.7598 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.9063625 Far Range Look Angle: 65.1770172 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.6017189 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 0.658779025 STO Longitude : -89.8429871 Latitude: 30.2057152 STO loxodromic heading 7.4425354 Distance from PRE: 89.0999985 km POS Longitude : -89.8403015 Latitude: 30.2236061 Distance from PRE: 91.0999985 km POS loxodromic heading 7.42948961 *****************************