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Magellan Surface
Characteristics Vector Data Record (SCVDR)
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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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