Magellan Surface Characteristics Vector Data Record (SCVDR)

The Surface Characteristics Vector Data Record (SCVDR) is an orbit-by-orbit reduction of Magellan scattering and emission measurements carried out at Stanford University. The SCVDR includes near-nadir scattering functions obtained by numerical inversion from altimetry (ALT) echoes, results (e.g., rms surface slopes and Fresnel reflectivity) from fitting analytic functions to those inversions, scattering function segments at oblique incidence angles derived from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) echoes, and estimates of surface emissivity derived from thermal microwave radiometry (RAD) measurements. The SCVDR is one of several inputs to the Global Vector Data Record (GVDR), a gridded summary of scattering results, also produced at Stanford.

Click on the links to view files and directories in the data set. See below to download the data set with FTP.

Data Set Volumes

In the table below, click on the Volume ID to get to the volume's top-level directory, from which you may access all the files. For an introduction to the data set, read the aareadme.txt file in the top-level directory. More complete information is available in the PDS catalog description for the data set, in the file dataset.cat. To find the location of a specific data product, look in the cumulative index table on the last volume, file cumindex.tab.

Downloading with FTP

To download the entire data set or parts of it with FTP, use this URL:

ftp://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/mgn/mgn-v-rdrs-5-scvdr-v1/

Data Set Producer

This archive was produced by Peter Ford and Joan Quigley at MIT. The data and documentation were provided by Richard Simpson, Stanford University. Please direct any questions and comments to the PDS Geosciences Node, geosci@wunder.wustl.edu.