************************** Radar Input File Name: 07000radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 07000site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 07000gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00047101.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 71/04/00 Comments: Chile Glacier RPI line. Also in the SCIE-SCIE2 sortie. PI is Gerald Bawden. 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. 69.6380005 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 185.393082 74.7985001 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 354.839508 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 4.85147381km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:ChiGla_07000 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 20767.7031 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) 44.439949 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 4.85147381 km This flight line will take 6.4000001 minutes to fly Data only: 3.4000001 minutes to fly (excluding PRE-STA and STO-POS) Latitude range: -66.5 to -20. Season: 2 (0-all, 1-winter, 2-summer) Temperature at altitude 12496.7998 m expected to be -50.9031982 r_aircraft_across_track: 13288.625 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head -30.1811981 -69.8777008 69.6380005 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: -30.1811981 -69.8777008 Nominal Length of line (km): 44.439949 Flight heading 69.6380005 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): -30.2935829 -69.8296356 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 8408.3916 m Horizontal distance to near range: 2938.52148 m Minimum near range distance: 7150.45752 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 56.0947533 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 47.7027168 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): 8.21617408E+09 7.6519084 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 4376.89404 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: -0.135034472 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3285.35791 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 5272.78857 Expected Target Terrain Height: 4516. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.3316422 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.027153 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -17.4716492 near range, end of image: -30.1991405 -69.6240158 far range, end of image: -30.0234013 -69.6990356 near swath, beginning of image: -30.338625 -70.0565491 far swath, beginning of image: -30.1628895 -70.1316757 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -77.4974365 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.0456829 HV Received Power: -89.1760101 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.7242661 VV Received Power: -77.942482 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.4907322 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 15.8274603 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 57.4577904 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -16.0456829 Avg terrain slope (deg) -0.135034472 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 8. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 8. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 86 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 86 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 20767.7031 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 18.9767647 Far Range Look Angle: 70.1773758 Optimum Steering Angle: 57.3227577 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 4212.16455 Near range distance: 12891.0752 Nadir distance: 8467.36523 find STA: -30.2935829 -69.8296356 ,shift: 22.2199745 PRE Longitude : -70.2318726 Latitude: -30.4223404 PRE loxodromic heading 69.7597809 STA Longitude : -70.0463333 Latitude: -30.3631458 STA loxodromic heading 69.6257858 Distance from PRE: 19. km Near range distance: 3897.30176 Nadir distance: 7965.42139 Nadir return in image 446 ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 26 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 20767.7031 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.6403694 Far Range Look Angle: 70.8461761 Optimum Steering Angle: 57.3227577 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 5078.94824 STO Longitude : -69.6130753 Latitude: -30.224062 STO loxodromic heading 69.623848 Distance from PRE: 63.5 km POS Longitude : -69.5935974 Latitude: -30.2177868 Distance from PRE: 65.5 km POS loxodromic heading 69.7072449 *****************************