************************** Radar Input File Name: 19905radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 19905site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 19905gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00092903.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 29/09/00 Comments: Red River over Fargo, line 4 from the east Antenna Transmit Cal Pulse Enabled Antenna Receive Cal Pulse Disabled 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 Mode Label does not agree with Radar Setup Radar Mode: POLSAR Xmit_Antenna_Select: 1 Xmit_Pol_Select: 3 Rcv_Array_Select: 1 Rcv_Buffer_Select: 3 Scan_Angle_Count: 2 Method: Center Expected Wind Speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 40. 45. Planned Ground Speed (m/s and Direction (deg) : 221. 199.433807 Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 257.662384 203.275223 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 356.158569 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 9.82430935km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:RedRv1_19905 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 13492.877 Pad of : 0 of DW is added to DW DW Increment : 2 DW Increment corresponds to : 180. m The Range Swath is : 8.09439659 km Estimated Data Window Duration: 90 microseconds This includes 36 microseconds for the pulse length Maximum Data Window Duration: 90 microseconds Minimum Data Window Duration: 50 microseconds Flight plan length in km (not including shortbit) 74.4156189 including the azimuth reference function length of 0.25 km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 9.82430935 km This flight line will take 8.69999981 minutes to fly Data only: 5.5999999 minutes to fly (excluding PRE-STA and STO-POS) Latitude range: 20. to 66.5 Season: 2 (0-all, 1-winter, 2-summer) Temperature at altitude 12496.7998 m expected to be -50.9031982 r_aircraft_across_track: 10023.4033 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 47.2073097 -96.93573 199.433807 shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 47.2073097 -96.93573 Nominal Length of line (km): 74.4156189 Flight heading 199.433807 Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 47.2372589 -97.0606461 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12213.3311 m Horizontal distance to near range: 3257.59546 m Minimum near range distance: 12642.1699 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 36 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 41. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 81.4785767 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 84.3394852 Number of Minor PRFs per PRF: 4 desired PRF major 619.712341 desired PRI major 1613.65186 allowed PRI major 1616. Initial Estimate of Minor PRF(hz): 2478.84937 Initial Estimate of Minor PRI (microsec): 403.412964 Major PRI must be an integer multiple of 8 Nominal aircraft speed of 221. Major Delta PRI of 2 Implies Minor PRF of 2475.24756 hz and a PRI of 404. microsecond Major PRI is 1616. Updated Ground_Spacing (ft): 1.1717025 Maximum Major PRI: 3500 Minimum Major PRI: 1440 ground spacing is less than half the azimuth antenna length Azimuth Antenna Length is 1.20000005 m ground spacing is 0.357136011 m Nominal Pulse Lenth is being used: 36 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: 0.103960395 CTU adds 6. microseconds in calculation of duty cycle Pulse Length (microsec): 36 Duty Cycle: 0.103960395 Maximum Duty Cycle : 0.150000006 Science Data Rate: Sampling Rate Mhz 180. Data Window Length (microseconds) 90 Number of Samples per Pulse: 16200. Number of Blocks in Pulse: 126 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: 16954 Data Rate per receiver channel (B/s, MB/s): 41965348. 40.0212746 Maximum data rate per receiver channel is: 45. The PRI_MIN such that data rate does not exceed the allowed data rate: 1437 The PRI_Min such that the ground spacing is less than half the Azimuth Antenna Length 827 The PRI_Min such that the Maximum Duty Cycle 0.150000006 is not exceeded is 959 PRI Min: 1437 Final PRI Min: 1440 Total Data Rate (B/s, MB/s): 83930696. 80.0425491 Maximum Data Rate to JBOD (MB/s): 200. Estimated Total Science Data Volume for this run (bytes,Gbytes): 2.82007142E+10 26.2639618 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 267.569672 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: -0.0439436883 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 258.607422 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 275.984924 Expected Target Terrain Height: 267. Initial Look Angle (deg) 15. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -15.2637529 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -26.4454193 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -16.259943 near range, end of image: 46.9117279 -97.1817398 far range, end of image: 46.8713226 -97.0146866 near swath, beginning of image: 47.5429802 -96.855896 far swath, beginning of image: 47.5025826 -96.6868515 Power Transmitted: 3.20000005 kw Total Antenna Gain 19.8999996 HH Received Power: -75.3698196 Average HH sigma0 at beginning of run: -14.7178364 HV Received Power: -86.9233856 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -26.2714081 VV Received Power: -76.4306259 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -15.7786455 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 15.8077841 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 36 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 39.3050117 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -14.7178364 Avg terrain slope (deg) -0.0439436883 Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HH): 10. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (HV): 2. Gain Correction to Attenuator values (VV): 10. ----- PRE and STA waypoints estimated DWP: 110 microseconds Maximum DWP: 510 microseconds Minimum DWP : 20 microseconds DWP: 110 microsec, Data Window Duration: 90 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 13492.877 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 14.904006 Far Range Look Angle: 53.8445587 Optimum Steering Angle: 39.2610664 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 262.694366 Near range distance: 16488.584 Nadir distance: 12236.9551 find STA: 47.2372589 -97.0606461 ,shift: 37.2078094 PRE Longitude : -96.811409 Latitude: 47.7137566 PRE loxodromic heading -160.447189 STA Longitude : -96.8961639 Latitude: 47.5527573 STA loxodromic heading -160.579285 Distance from PRE: 19. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 110 microsec, Data Window Duration: 90 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 13492.877 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 14.9302101 Far Range Look Angle: 53.8947296 Optimum Steering Angle: 39.2610664 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 275.093231 STO Longitude : -97.224144 Latitude: 46.9217415 STO loxodromic heading -160.571671 Distance from PRE: 93.5 km POS Longitude : -97.2328796 Latitude: 46.9047737 Distance from PRE: 95.5 km POS loxodromic heading -160.506973 *****************************