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6.6.19 Wave Mode Geolocation ADS

Due to the reduced size of the imagettes compared to normal ASAR images, each Wave Mode Geolocation Annotation Data Set Record (ADSR) contains only the geodetic latitude and longitude of the centre point of the imagette. One ADSR is produced for each wave cell.

The centre point given in the Geolocation ADSR corresponds to the ground range centre point of the wave cell. This will not correspond exactly to the latitude and longitude of the centre sample of the SLC imagette (in slant range ), but provides a
more accurate positioning of the location of the cross spectra centre point.

Note that the imagettes do not cover a contiguous region geographically. Thus, Wave Mode Geolocation ADS entries may differ substantially for different imagettes.


Table 6.57 Wave Mode Geolocation ADS

Wave Mode Geolocation ADS

# Description Units Count Type Size
Data Record
0 zero_doppler_time
Zero Doppler Time of first line of the first line of the imagette
MJD 1 mjd 12 byte(s)
1 attach_flag
Attachment Flag

Set to 1 if unable to compute the cross spectra for a given SLC imagette (I.e. no Cross Spectra MDSR corresponding to this ADSR), set to 0 otherwise.

flag 1 BooleanFlag 1 byte(s)
2 center_lat
Geodetic latitude of center point (positive north)

This is the center point of the wave cell.

(1e-6) degrees 1 GeoCoordinate 4 byte(s)
3 center_long
Geodetic longitude of center point (positive east)

This is the center point of the wave cell.

(1e-6) degrees 1 GeoCoordinate 4 byte(s)
4 heading
Subsatellite Track Heading. Relative to North of centre point.
- 1 fl 4 byte(s)
Record Length : 25

DS_NAME : Wave Mode Geolocation ADS



Format Version 114.0  


Note for both fields # 3 and #4, the centre point of the wave cell is calculated after the cross spectra processing, and thus may differ from the centre sample latitude of the SLC imagette if slant range to ground range conversion was performed during the cross spectra calculation.

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