RA2_BURST_WAVEFORMS

binary record "RA2_BURST_WAVEFORMS"size: 3242
RA-2 Burst Waveforms MDS

idfield namedefinition
0dsr_time
binary timesize: 12
Data Record Time: Time fields based on UTC are computed for each record and referred to the first data block of the source packet containing the individual echoes

unit: "s since 2000-01-01"

value: float(./days) * 86400 + float(./seconds) + float(./microseconds) / 1000000
binary recordsize: 12
ENVISAT binary datetime

idfield namedefinition
0days
binary int32size: 4
days since January 1st, 2000 (may be negative)

unit: "days since 2000-01-01"
1seconds
binary uint32size: 4
seconds since start of day

unit: "s"
2microseconds
binary uint32size: 4
microseconds since start of second

unit: "1e-6 s"
1quality_flag
binary int8size: 1
Quality Indicator (-1 for blank MDSR, 0 otherwise)
2spare_1
binary bytessize: 3
Spare

hidden: true
3odbh_data_wd
binary uint64size: 8
OBDH datation word (43 bits): The datation timing words are transcriptions of the words provided in the source packet of the sequence, and does not change over the sequence

unit: "1/524288 s"
4spare_2
binary bytessize: 12
Spare

hidden: true
5rec_cnt
binary uint32size: 4
Record Counter
6sour_seq_cnt
binary uint16size: 2
Source Sequence Count: Extracted from the header of the source packet
7indv_echo
binary array[1600, 2]size: 3200
Ku Individual Echoes (1600 I,Q pairs)
binary int8size: 1