************************** Radar Input File Name: 17012radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 13503site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 03901gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 10020601.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 06/02/10 Comments: Barro Colorado Island, Panama (PI: Sassan Saatchi) 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) : 10. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 135. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 221.226135 137.590805 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 357.40918 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.59684086km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:PCanal_13503 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12497. m 41000.5312 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22490.8262 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) 98.1936798 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.59684086 km This flight line will take 10.5 minutes to fly Data only: 7.4000001 minutes to fly (excluding PRE-STA and STO-POS) Latitude range: -20. to 20. Season: 1 (0-all, 1-winter, 2-summer) Temperature at altitude 12497. m expected to be -56.7805595 r_aircraft_across_track: 15793.9492 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 9.18536091 -79.7027969 135. shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 9.18536091 -79.7027969 Nominal Length of line (km): 98.1936798 Flight heading 135. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 9.08433342 -79.8044281 Altitude (m, ft): 12497. 41000.5312 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12496.9932 m Voids in nadir height profile. Values set to last value not greater than the null value Horizontal distance to near range: 4587.67969 m Minimum near range distance: 13129.6621 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 83.3709717 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 87.5916824 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): 1.78822615E+10 16.6541538 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 64.9741516 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.372905612 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.621115506 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 220.374466 Expected Target Terrain Height: 0. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.7435493 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -28.5985832 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.659174 near range, end of image: 8.79938316 -79.459465 far range, end of image: 8.94323254 -79.314827 near swath, beginning of image: 9.42719555 -80.091423 far swath, beginning of image: 9.57104015 -79.9465256 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -INF Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -INF HV Received Power: NAN Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: NAN VV Received Power: -491.776001 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -427.496643 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 20.1720543 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 51.3387413 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -INF Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.372905612 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): -2.14748365E+09 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): -2.14748365E+09 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): -406. ----- 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: 22490.8262 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.1553478 Far Range Look Angle: 65.2227173 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.711647 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 67.4985809 Near range distance: 17088.1699 Nadir distance: 12497. find STA: 9.08433342 -79.8044281 ,shift: 49.0968399 PRE Longitude : -80.2494507 Latitude: 9.52582169 PRE loxodromic heading 134.950424 STA Longitude : -80.1205292 Latitude: 9.39809704 STA loxodromic heading 134.998718 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22490.8262 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.1604633 Far Range Look Angle: 65.2287369 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.711647 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 0.824766457 STO Longitude : -79.4886017 Latitude: 8.77056217 STO loxodromic heading 135.009521 Distance from PRE: 118.300003 km POS Longitude : -79.4757462 Latitude: 8.75777626 Distance from PRE: 120.300003 km POS loxodromic heading -45.0262451 *****************************