Collection Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:magellan_bsr_calibrated:sc2::1.0
NAME Magellan Bistatic Radar Calibrated: Sc2 Collection
TYPE Calibration
DESCRIPTION The sc2 collection contains ASCII files of coefficients for polynomials used to adjust the frequency of the surface echo so that it is approximately centered in the 25000 Hz output bandwidth. It is assumed that the directly propagating carrier was centered in the previous processing step, so this is a differential frequency correction. Each sc2 file covers a single Magellan orbit in (nominally) 10 second steps and is valid for both RCP and LCP. The sc2 files were created in the 1990's and were reformatted for archive in 2008. File names have the form ydddhhmm.sc2, where 'y' and 'ddd' are the same as for prr files and 'hh' and 'mm' give the start hour and minute, respectively, for the data in each file.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Magellan Bistatic Radar Calibrated Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.17189/c7sf-7t57 (from parent bundle)
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PUBLICATION YEAR 2024
DESCRIPTION The sc2 collection contains ASCII files of coefficients for polynomials used to adjust the frequency of the surface echo so that it is approximately centered in the 25000 Hz output bandwidth. It is assumed that the directly propagating carrier was centered in the previous processing step, so this is a differential frequency correction. Each sc2 file covers a single Magellan orbit in (nominally) 10 second steps and is valid for both RCP and LCP. The sc2 files were created in the 1990's and were reformatted for archive in 2008. File names have the form ydddhhmm.sc2, where 'y' and 'ddd' are the same as for prr files and 'hh' and 'mm' give the start hour and minute, respectively, for the data in each file.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 1994-06-05T01:02:21.000Z
STOP DATE TIME 1994-06-05T08:01:40.000Z
LOCAL MEAN SOLAR TIME
LOCAL TRUE SOLAR TIME
SOLAR LONGITUDE
PRIMARY RESULT PURPOSE Science
PRIMARY RESULT PROCESSING LEVEL Calibrated
PRIMARY RESULT DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY RESULT WAVELENGTH RANGE
PRIMARY RESULT DOMAIN Surface
PRIMARY RESULT DISCIPLINE NAME Geosciences
INVESTIGATION Magellan
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Magellan
Radio Science Subsystem
TARGET Venus
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