************************** Radar Input File Name: 09300radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 09300site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 09300gcp_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. 93.276001 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 196.657562 102.007774 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 351.268219 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 5.58398485km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:ChiGla_09300 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 21261.8027 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) 61.3759689 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 5.58398485 km This flight line will take 7.69999981 minutes to fly Data only: 4.5999999 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: 13974.2588 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head -34.6997414 -70.3201141 93.276001 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: -34.6997414 -70.3201141 Nominal Length of line (km): 61.3759689 Flight heading 93.276001 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): -34.8255539 -70.3288498 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 10263.0625 m Horizontal distance to near range: 3381.52588 m Minimum near range distance: 8800.74316 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 68.4677887 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 58.7122421 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): 1.11160003E+10 10.352582 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 2925.8999 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 3.8996706 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 1220.56055 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 4011.5127 Expected Target Terrain Height: 3311. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -16.2763901 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.534399 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -16.7370777 near range, end of image: -34.8108444 -69.9922714 far range, end of image: -34.6193352 -69.9789963 near swath, beginning of image: -34.7792244 -70.6611176 far swath, beginning of image: -34.5877151 -70.6478424 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -78.8557739 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.2758331 HV Received Power: -89.9098434 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -27.3299026 VV Received Power: -79.3670197 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -16.7870827 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 18.1207142 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 46.7498856 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -16.2758331 Avg terrain slope (deg) 3.8996706 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 8. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 6. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 104 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 104 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 21261.8027 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 16.3997078 Far Range Look Angle: 65.0032806 Optimum Steering Angle: 50.6495552 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 1220.56055 Near range distance: 15589.207 Nadir distance: 11535.0332 find STA: -34.8255539 -70.3288498 ,shift: 30.6879845 PRE Longitude : -70.8709641 Latitude: -34.7987518 PRE loxodromic heading 93.4707565 STA Longitude : -70.6637192 Latitude: -34.8092842 STA loxodromic heading 93.2624435 Distance from PRE: 19. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 98 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 21261.8027 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 18.1328201 Far Range Look Angle: 67.2659149 Optimum Steering Angle: 50.6495552 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 3984.27808 STO Longitude : -69.9939194 Latitude: -34.8418388 STO loxodromic heading 93.2577438 Distance from PRE: 80.5 km POS Longitude : -69.972084 Latitude: -34.8428688 Distance from PRE: 82.5 km POS loxodromic heading 93.3743286 *****************************