PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = "CAMERON DICKINSON, 2008-04-11; 2008-08-04 bsword, reformatted, added missing keywords 2008-12-05, minor changes" RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = DATA_SET DATA_SET_ID = "PHX-M-MET-2-L-EDR-V1.0" OBJECT = DATA_SET_INFORMATION DATA_SET_NAME = "PHOENIX MARS MET LIDAR ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES EDR V1.0" DATA_SET_COLLECTION_MEMBER_FLG = "N" DATA_OBJECT_TYPE = TABLE START_TIME = 2008-05-28T20:35:58.613 STOP_TIME = 2008-06-24T12:24:49.144 DATA_SET_RELEASE_DATE = 2008-12-23 PRODUCER_FULL_NAME = "CAMERON S. DICKINSON" DETAILED_CATALOG_FLAG = "N" CITATION_DESC = "Dickinson, C. D., PHX ATMOSPHERIC LIDAR PROFILES V1.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2008." ABSTRACT_DESC = "The PHX Atmospheric Lidar Profiles product contains unprocessed laser scattering atmospheric profiles for photon counting data at 532nm, and analog data at both 532 and 1064nm wavelengths (expressed in Dignal Numbers). The range data is provided as a time series of profiles between 5 and 90 min in total duration, with each profile representing an accumulation or average over 1.28-20.24 sec. Supplemental data of estimated laser power and inter-profile analog background skylight estimates are also provided." DATA_SET_TERSE_DESC = "PHX LIDAR unprocessed laser scattering profiles" DATA_SET_DESC = " Modification History ==================== Version 1 data volumes include volumes LS003 through LS029, released Dec 2008. These volumes contain Lidar data collected May 2008 through June 2008, specifically Sols 3-29. Data Set Overview ================= The Phoenix Mars Lander arrived at 68.2184N, 234.2487E on May 25, 2008. The PHX Atmospheric Lidar Profiles product contains unprocessed (i.e. Digital Numbers not converted to counts or voltage) laser scattering atmospheric profiles. Each operation of the lidar instrument is provided as a separate product, and often more than one operation was conducted per sol. The EDR Data are organized into Photon Counting (532nm), Analog (532 & 1064nm) and Supplemental (Laser Power, Lidar Background Skylight and sensorhead temperatures). The lidar instrument is highly configurable, leading to a myriad of possible data volume outcomes. Briefly, a single (vertical) profile of atmospheric scattering is given for a single point in time, and listed as values at various ranges (distance) from the lander (with the difference between successive ranges defining the sampling range interval). Successive profiles, marked with a separate time, determine the temporal sampling interval (period duration), and the total duration is defined as the product of total number of profiles and sampling interval (temporal integration duration). The range sampling interval for analog and photon counting channels can be configured separately, Supplemental data contains the unprocessed average, min and max laser voltages (provided as an estimate of laser power); inter_pulse analog background values; and sensor-head temperature estimates, as an indicator of co-alignment between laser transmitter and receiver. [WHITEWAY2008] The Data is organized by a unique identifier (Token) is keeping with the other Phoenix instruments. The token for the Lidar was set each instance of operation, and is provided as a 4 byte hex value. Every record is stored with both the spacecraft time, and UTC start time, and each data record can thus be retrieved from each table using time as a common key. Parameters ========== Each EDR file contains time as the MET Frame count since instrument power on (1 count is 0.01 sec). The range that scattering occurs at is given from the lander deck (approximately vertical) in meters. EDR files contain 32bit DN for the number of photon counts (532nm photon counting channel) or the average voltage for the analog channels (532 & 1064nm). Supplemental values of the min, max and average laser intensities are provided as 16 bit values; as are the analog background (skylight) values sampled between laser pulses (avg, min, max); and the sensorhead temperatures. The number of profiles and integration duration are also provided for reference. During surface operations, the range resolution was nominally set to 20m and 50m, respectively, for the analog and photon counting data; The sampling period was between 1.28 - 20.48 sec, with the vast majority of lidar operations employing 20.24 sec resolution; each operation of the lidar was between 5 and 90 min in total duration, with the average operation lasting 20 min. Processing ========== The EDRs are essentially identical to the telemetry messages sent from the MET-Lidar instrument to the Lander computer, converted to ASCII and with the addition of a Lander timestamp (there is no onboard MET clock, so the instrument relies on an internal Frame Count. Matching of this frame count and the Lander clock are made using the MET GDS) Finally, the data were converted to PDS format, converting the tab-delimited fields to fixed-width fields, and exchanging the multiple packet headers for a single session header by the MET GDS. Address: Cameron Dickinson Dept. of Earth and Space Science Engineering York University 4700 Keele St Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Phone: (416) 736-2100 X 23870 Email: cameron.dickinson@gmail.com For science related questions about the data, please contact the MET Instrument Science Team Lead: Address: James Whiteway Dept. of Earth and Space Science Engineering York University 4700 Keele St Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Phone: (416) 736-2100 X 22310 Email: whiteway@yorku.ca Data ==== All of the data in this data set are contained in ASCII tabular files with detached PDS labels. Data is stored in a separate directory relating to the sol in which the recording of data commenced (i.e. data acquired from 003 10:00 local to 004 10:15 will be in the sol 3 directory) Individual filenames are constructed as follows: MS002ELP_00896227243_10CCM0.LBL 1: The first character will always be an 'M', representing MET data. 2: The second character will be an 'S', signifying surface data (versus 'C' for Cruise) 3-5: The next three characters provide the sol number of the data file. 6-8: The next three characters describe the type of MET data, ELP - EDR Lidar Photon Counting *532 nm) ELA - EDR Lidar Analog (532 & 1064 nm) ELS - EDR Lidar Supplemental Data RLP - RDR Lidar Photon Counting *532 nm) RLA - RDR Lidar Analog (532 & 1064 nm) RLS - RDR Lidar Supplemental Data 9: Blank 10-20: SCLK - Spacecraft clock 21: Blank 22-25: Operations Token 26: Producer (M for MET Team) 27: Version 28: Period 29-31: Extension, LBL or TAB The tabular files are formatted so that they may be read directly into many database management systems (DBMS) or spreadsheet programs on various computers. Each of the files contains two tables. The first is the header table, and is only a single record in length. The second table contains all of the data records for a session and varies in length. All fields in the tables are stored in columns of fixed width and are right justified. The records are of fixed length; since the header records are shorter than the data records, they have been padded with blank spaces at the end of the record. The last two bytes of each record contain the ASCII carriage return and line feed characters. This allows the tables to be treated as fixed length record files on computers that support this file type and as normal text files on other computers. The PDS labels are object-oriented. The object to which the labels refer (the tables) is denoted by a statement of the form: ^object = location in which the carat character ('^', also called a pointer in this context) indicates that the object starts at the given location. For an object located outside the label file (as in this case), the location denotes the name of the file containing the object, along with the starting record. For example: ^TABLE = 'MS013RLP_00126907202_15C6M1.TAB' indicates that the TABLE object is in the same directory as the detached label file. (Records are counted starting at 1, not 0.) The detached label files are stream format files, with a carriage return (ASCII 13) and a line feed character (ASCII 10) at the end of each record. This allows the files to be read by the MacOS, DOS, UNIX, and VMS operating systems. Software ======== The EDR/RDR tables can be displayed on UNIX, Macintosh, and PC platforms as simple ASCII files, or using the PDS developed program, NASAView. This software is freely available from the PDS Central Node and may be obtained from their web site at http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/. For more information or help in obtaining the software, contact the PDS operator at the following address: Address: Planetary Data System, PDS Operator Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109 Phone: (818) 354-4321 Email: pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov WWW URL: http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/" CONFIDENCE_LEVEL_NOTE = " Review ====== The contents of this data have been peer reviewed by the following people: Lyle Huber - PDS Atmospheres Node, New Mexico State University Jim Murphy - PDS Atmospheres Node, New Mexico State University Cameron Dickinson - MET/Lidar Data Manager, York University Jim Whiteway - MET/LIDAR Instrument Co-Investigator, York University" END_OBJECT = DATA_SET_INFORMATION OBJECT = DATA_SET_MISSION MISSION_NAME = PHOENIX END_OBJECT = DATA_SET_MISSION OBJECT = DATA_SET_TARGET TARGET_NAME = MARS END_OBJECT = DATA_SET_TARGET OBJECT = DATA_SET_HOST INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = PHX INSTRUMENT_ID = LIDAR END_OBJECT = DATA_SET_HOST OBJECT = DATA_SET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "WHITEWAY2008" END_OBJECT = DATA_SET_REFERENCE_INFORMATION END_OBJECT = DATA_SET END