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6.6.10 Measurement Data Set 1

The Measurement Data Set (MDS) consists of several Measurement Data Set Records (MDSRs) and each MDSR contains the processed SAR data for one range line. The number of MDSRs within a given product depends on the number of range lines contained within the data set. The length of each MDSR depends on the product, the swath , and the data format used to represent the samples.

Each MDSR consists of a small header, followed by the processed SAR data. Note that for the geocoded products there is no correlation between the MDSR and zero Doppler time , so the time entry is set to zero. Zero Doppler times in the Annotation Data Sets (ADSs) of the geocoded product refer to those of the intermediate image created before geocoding. For detected images the SAR data consists of real valued samples.


Table 6.46 Measurement Data Set 1

Measurement Data Set 5

# Description Units Count Type Size
Data Record
0 zero_doppler_time
Zero Doppler Time in azimuth

MJD format

MJD 1 mjd 12 byte(s)
1 quality_flag
Quality Indicator

Set to -1 if all entries in MDSR are zero, set to zero otherwise

flag 1 BooleanFlag 1 byte(s)
2 line_num
Range line number.

Numbered sequentially, for each product (or slice) first range line in MDS is 1. Warning: (1) For a stripline product, which may consist of multiple slices in a single MDS, this number is reset to 1 at the beginning of each slice. (2) For child products, which are subsets of a full product, the range line number in the first record may not be 1

- 1 ul 4 byte(s)
3 proc_data
SAR Processed Data.

Real samples (detected products)

- - 0 byte(s)
Record Length : 17

DS_NAME : Measurement Data Set 5



Format Version 114.0  


Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry