************************** Radar Input File Name: 34510radar_01.rdf Site Input File Name: 34510site_01.rdf GCP Input File Name: 34510gcp_01.rdf ADP File Name: 00123001.adp Flight Date (Day, Month, Year): 30/12/00 Comments: East Texas coast 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. 345. Planned Ground Speed (knots) : 429.589508 Expected air speed (m/s) and Direction (deg) : 203.963226 335.221527 Expected drift angle (positive is counter clockwise): 9.7784729 Expected drift angle within desired range 12. Squint at near range is 7.58638477km Assuming maximum squint angle of 12. Site Name:neches_34510 ************************** Aircraft height planned 12496.7998 m 40999.875 ft Finding maximum ground range swath width actual ground swath width of (m): 22484.873 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) 164.999771 including the azimuth reference function length of 8. km and a pad on each side for a maximum squint of 7.58638477 km This flight line will take 15.5 minutes to fly Data only: 12.3999996 minutes to fly (excluding PRE-STA and STO-POS) Latitude range: 20. to 66.5 Season: 1 (0-all, 1-winter, 2-summer) Temperature at altitude 12496.7998 m expected to be -57.220871 r_aircraft_across_track: 15784.7119 r_latrun, r_lonrun, r_peg_head 30.335844 -94.1400223 345. shiftdistance: 0. Center of image Swath: 30.335844 -94.1400223 Nominal Length of line (km): 164.999771 Flight heading 345. Aircraft center position (latitude, longtitude): 30.372612 -93.9813538 Altitude (m, ft): 12496.7998 40999.875 Shift along track (km): 0. Minimum Nadir distance to ground = 12445.6436 m Voids in nadir height profile. Values set to last value not greater than the null value Horizontal distance to near range: 4521.49951 m Minimum near range distance: 13191.7627 m Nominal Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Minimum time to allow for data receive (microsec): 45. Minimum 2-way return time to nadir (microsec): 83.0284042 Minimum 2-way return time to near range (microsec): 88.0059738 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: 5000 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 assuming nominal minor PRI: 0.0333333351 1380. CTU adds 6. microseconds in calculation of duty cycle Pulse Length (microsec): 40 Duty Cycle: 0.0333333351 Maximum Duty Cycle : 0.0490000024 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 0.0490000024 is not exceeded is 1877 PRI Min: 1877 Final PRI Min: 1876 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): 2.99648717E+10 27.9069614 Timing delay of 25. added to DWP Average Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 32.3537712 Average Terrain slope 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.102586962 Minimum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 0.555318415 Maximum Terrain Height 1/3 into swath for entire run: 107.418221 Expected Target Terrain Height: 17. Initial Look Angle (deg) 20. Average HH backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.1288643 Average HV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -27.9621696 Average VV backscatter (within incidence angle limits) for entire run: -18.1140175 near range, end of image: 31.0806618 -94.2498474 far range, end of image: 31.0281372 -94.4775391 near swath, beginning of image: 29.6430035 -93.8073502 far swath, beginning of image: 29.5904675 -94.0317383 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: -491.749817 Average HV sigma0 at beginning of run: -427.496643 Desired Power Level at attenna: -15. Reference Range, actual range 18.625 20.1176949 Reference Pulse Width, actual 40. 40 Reference Incidence Angle, actual 45. 51.4874611 Reference Target Sigma0(CO, CROSS), actual -8. -10. -INF Avg terrain slope (deg) 0.102586962 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: 22484.873 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 19.8878288 Far Range Look Angle: 65.1648712 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.5900497 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 24.6818008 Near range distance: 17088.1699 Nadir distance: 12496.7998 find STA: 30.372612 -93.9813538 ,shift: 82.4998856 PRE Longitude : -93.7078018 Latitude: 29.4790916 PRE loxodromic heading -14.9027405 STA Longitude : -93.760788 Latitude: 29.6534748 STA loxodromic heading -15.0062675 Distance from PRE: 20. km ---- STO and POS waypoints DWP: 114 microsec, Data Window Duration: 150 microsec Actual Ground Swath: 22484.873 m, Desired Ground Swath: 16000. m Near Range Look Angle: 20.0446129 Far Range Look Angle: 65.3505554 Optimum Steering Angle: 51.5900497 Terrain Height 1/3 into swath: 74.7191391 STO Longitude : -94.2037506 Latitude: 31.0916214 STO loxodromic heading -14.999505 Distance from PRE: 185.100006 km POS Longitude : -94.2091827 Latitude: 31.109045 Distance from PRE: 187.100006 km POS loxodromic heading -14.9596462 *****************************