************************** Radar Input File Name: 09200radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 09200site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 09200gcp_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. 91.8290024 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 195.81813 100.396713 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 351.432281 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 4.3068018km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:ChiGla_09200 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 20381.1777 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) 57.5276031 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 4.3068018 km This flight line will take 7.4000001 minutes to fly Data only: 4.30000019 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: 12769.2451 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head -33.7718315 -69.9122086 91.8290024 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: -33.7718315 -69.9122086 Nominal Length of line (km): 57.5276031 Flight heading 91.8290024 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): -33.8869019 -69.9166107 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 9036.37598 m Horizontal distance to near range: 2611.08301 m Minimum near range distance: 8998.63965 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 60.284214 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 60.0324631 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): 1.03910441E+10 9.67741394 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP *** The difference between input nominal ground height and measured ground height in imaged swath is -2074.21436 m If this is incorrect, the flight plan should be re-run *** Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3337.78564 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 10.5151825 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1728.01709 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 5517.40869 Expected Target Terrain Height: 5412. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -15.6145382 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.1855736 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -16.2656174 near range, end of image: -33.8716316 -69.6052704 far range, end of image: -33.687809 -69.5982437 near swath, beginning of image: -33.8550758 -70.2261276 far swath, beginning of image: -33.6712494 -70.219101 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -74.8457718 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -14.1132221 HV Received Power: -86.9754791 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -26.2429314 VV Received Power: -75.9043655 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -15.1718187 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 16.2166767 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 41.6156006 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -14.1132221 Avg terrain slope (deg) 10.5151825 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 12. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): 2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 10. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 94 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 94 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 20381.1777 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 14.6972713 Far Range Look Angle: 66.5891953 Optimum Steering Angle: 52.1307831 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 1728.01709 Near range distance: 14090.2451 Nadir distance: 9616.54004 find STA: -33.8869019 -69.9166107 ,shift: 28.7638016 PRE Longitude : -70.4326553 Latitude: -33.8720741 PRE loxodromic heading 92.0089188 STA Longitude : -70.2274246 Latitude: -33.878231 STA loxodromic heading 91.8148727 Distance from PRE: 19. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 90 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 20381.1777 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 15.3046494 Far Range Look Angle: 67.4622192 Optimum Steering Angle: 52.1307831 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 4099.31299 STO Longitude : -69.6057663 Latitude: -33.8956032 STO loxodromic heading 91.8145676 Distance from PRE: 76.6999969 km POS Longitude : -69.5841522 Latitude: -33.8961792 Distance from PRE: 78.6999969 km POS loxodromic heading 91.9232483 *****************************