TITLE: Yokosuka, Japan Radar Data [NOAC Yokosuka]


CONTACTS:

LCDR Joel W. Feldmeier
Joel.Feldmeier@fe.navy.mil

Operations Officer
LT Stanley Rogers
Stanley.Rogers@fe.navy.mil

IT Department Head
Mr. Tony Camacho
Anthony.Camacho@fe.navy.mil


1.0  DATA SET OVERVIEW
     

This data set contains radar data from the Enterprise Electronics 
Corporation (EEC) Edge C-band radar (SWR-250C) located at the 
Yokosuka, Japan US Naval Base (approximately 70km to the south of 
Tokyo).  The data cover the period from 31 July to 6 October 2008.  
The data are in EEC Edge format.


2.0  DATA FORMAT AND FILE NAMING


2.1  Data Format

These data are in EEC Edge format.  They were using Edge V5.3 at the time of the
project.

2.2  File Naming conventions

yymmddhhmm??.vol
where:
        yy is the two digit year
        mm is the month
        dd is the day of month
        hh is the hour
        mm is the minutes

All times are Yokosuka local time (UTC + 9 hours).


3.0  DATA REMARKS


Every 20 minutes there are two types of files created.  

1) A full volume scan at 14 elevations (1.26  2.08  3.07  3.97  4.98  
   5.88  6.78  7.88  9.68 11.46 14.27 18.67 26.86 35.28 degrees)
   With a range of 120 km and a pulse width of 0.8 us.

2) A routine surveillance scan at 3 elevations (1.16  1.47  2.09 degrees)
   With a range of 228 km and a pulse width of 2.0 us.


NOTE: The timestamps may be incorrect by a few minutes for some of the files.
Late in the summer Yokosuka personnel noticed the clock on the workstation
which is fed by the radar was about 11 minutes fast.  They can't guarantee 
what the time differential was during the whole time period though.


4.0  REFERNCES


None.