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6.6.6 Antenna Elevation pattern

The antenna elevation pattern values are updated several times along the azimuth direction. Each update is time stamped with the zero Doppler time to which the update applies. The values continue to apply until a new update is made, and new values are added to the Annotation Data Set (ADS) with a new time stamp. The contents of each update (each update is a single ADSR within the ADS) are as follows. This ADS is not included for SLC products. The format for the Antenna Elevation Pattern ADSR (ASAR_Antenna_ADSR) is given below.

Note, for Wide Swath (WS) and Global Monitoring (GM) products, there is a separate ADSR for each beam . The ADSRs are ordered according to their time stamps. If the time stamps of several ADSRs are identical, the ADSRs are ordered by beam number from SS1 to SS5.


Table 6.42 Antenna Elevation pattern

Antenna Elevation patterns(s)

# Description Units Count Type Size
Data Record
0 zero_doppler_time
Zero Doppler azimuth time at which pattern applies
MJD 1 mjd 12 byte(s)
1 attach_flag
Attachment Flag

Always set to zero for this ADSR

flag 1 BooleanFlag 1 byte(s)
2 swath
Beam ID to which pattern applies SS1 to SS5 or NS��
ascii 1 AsciiString 3 byte(s)
3 elevation_pattern
Antenna Elevation Pattern

The following fields each contain 11 values spaced evenly across the image

- 1 elevation_patternStruct 132.0 byte(s)
a slant_range_time
2 way slant range times
ns 11 fl 11*4 byte(s)
b elevation_angles
Corresponding elevation angles
degrees 11 fl 11*4 byte(s)
c antenna_pattern
Corresponding two-way antenna elevation pattern values
dB 11 fl 11*4 byte(s)
4 spare_1
Spare
- 1 SpareField 14 byte(s)
Record Length : 162

DS_NAME : Antenna Elevation patterns(s)



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