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Magellan Surface Characteristics Vector Data Record (SCVDR)
| January 27, 2026. The Magellan Surface
Characteristics Vector Data Record (SCVDR)
dataset has been migrated to the PDS4 standard.
Please
see
geo_notes_and_errata.pdf for more information. |
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.
The updated version of this dataset was
migrated to the PDS4 standard from the set
of 49 CD-ROMs originally submitted to PDS by
Magellan team members. Not all data products
in the original Magellan archive were
PDS4-compliant, so these data files were
reformatted. Please
see
geo_notes_and_errata.pdf for more information.
The original PDS3 volumes will remain available at the links below for the
time being.
PDS4 Bundle
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root directory |
Top level of bundle |
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readme_magellan_scvdr.txt |
Introduction to the bundle |
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data collections |
AAll SCVDR data products |
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document collection |
Document files describing the data bundle and its
contents |
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miscellaneous collection |
An index file about the SVCDR products |
PDS3 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.
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