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                            Volume CORPWS_9004                               
                             Cassini Orbiter                                 
                      Radio and Plasma Wave Science                          
                   Edited Full Resolution Waveform Data                      
                                                                             
                  CO-V_E_J_S_SS-RPWS-2-REFDR-WFRFULL-V1.0                    
                                                                             
                      RPWS Standard Products Archive                         
                              Entire Mission                                 
              Planetary Plasma Interactions Discipline Node                  
                                  of the                                     
                          Planetary Data System                              
                                                                             
                                                                             
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Introduction                                                                 
========================================================================     
                                                                             
This volume contains the Cassini Orbiter Radio and Plasma Wave Science       
edited full resolution waveform standard data products from the entire       
mission, submitted to the Planetary Data System (PDS).  Every effort has     
been made to ensure that the data and documentation are of the best          
possible quality.  However, mistakes are inevitable.  The PPI Node of the    
PDS will maintain an online list of ERRATA where errors and updates are      
documented.  Should any user of this product find an error on this           
volume, please report the error to the PPI Node so that the finding can      
be made public.  All users are encouraged to verify the "correctness" of     
the data prior to submitting any publications or other work based on         
these data.  Users of these data are encouraged to acknowledge both the      
PDS and the principal investigators of the instruments whose data are        
used in analysis in all publications.                                        
                                                                             
                                                                             
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS VOLUME -- READ THIS FIRST!                  
========================================================================     
                                                                             
This volume contains Cassini Orbiter RPWS edited full resolution waveform    
data from the entire mission.  New data will be added to this volume as      
they become available.                                                       
                                                                             
KEY THINGS TO KNOW IN USING DATA ON THIS VOLUME:                             
                                                                             
A web browser can be used to view all the data on this volume in the form    
of Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files which are image files of            
frequency-time spectrograms by clicking on "Graphical Data Browser           
Index" in AAREADME.HTM in the root directory.  The browse data under the     
BROWSE directory consist of the "*.PNG" files.  Survey plots are             
presented along with links to corresponding data files and their PDS         
label files.                                                                 
                                                                             
All data files are stored under the DATA top-level directory and are         
organized by data set and spacecraft event time.  The DATA directory         
branches off into:                                                           
                                                                             
    * ANCILLARY, containing instrument mode and sequence information         
    * RPWS_WAVEFORM_FULL, containing high rate waveform (WFR) data           
                                                                             
The data are stored in binary files with labels and format descriptions      
included as separate files.  PDS labels are contained in associated          
"*.LBL" text files in the same directories as the data files and shared      
descriptions of many of the data structures are stored in "*.FMT" files      
in the LABEL top-level directory.                                            
                                                                             
General information for this volume is provided in PDS catalog files         
located in the CATALOG directory.  The data sets are documented in:          
                                                                             
    * CO_WF_FULL_DS.CAT, describing RPWS_WAVEFORM_FULL                       
                                                                             
Other PDS catalog files include:                                             
                                                                             
    * CO_INST_HOST.CAT, describing the Cassini Orbiter spacecraft            
    * CO_MISSION.CAT, describing the Cassini-Huygens mission                 
    * CO_RPWS_PERSON.CAT, listing RPWS and PDS personnel                     
    * CO_RPWS_REF.CAT, listing useful literature references                  
    * CO_RPWS_INST.CAT, describing the RPWS instrument                       
                                                                             
                                                                             
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Related PDS Products                                                         
=======================================================================      
                                                                             
This volume is part of a set of 5 volumes containing the RPWS Standard       
Products from the full Cassini mission. These include the following          
volumes:                                                                     
                                                                             
     * CORPWS_9001, contains the raw complete (telemetry packets) data       
       set                                                                   
     * CORPWS_9002, contains the resampled key parameters data set           
       (summary spectral information in units of spectral density)           
     * CORPWS_9003, contains the calibrated full resolution low rate         
       data set (all spectral information in units of spectral density)      
     * CORPWS_9004, contains the edited full resolution waveform data set    
     * CORPWS_9005, contains the edited full resolution wideband data set    
                                                                             
Planned for archive later are higher level data products from the Radio      
and Plasma Wave Science investigation including polarization and             
direction-finding measurements of planetary radio emissions, electron        
density measurements via a number of techniques including the use of a       
Langmuir Probe and sounder, and wave-normal analysis results of plasma       
waves.                                                                       
                                                                             
Another related PDS product is the Cassini Magnetosphere and Plasma          
Science Key Parameter data set which includes the RPWS Key Parameter         
data set included herein along with similar products from the Cassini        
Magnetometer, Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument, and Cassini Plasma          
Spectrometer Subsystem.                                                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
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Volume Format Information                                                    
========================================================================     
                                                                             
The volume is organized into a hierarchical directory structure.  It is      
formatted according to a combination of ISO 9660, UDF, Rock Ridge (UNIX),    
and Joliet (Microsoft) standards in order to accommodate users on a wide     
variety of platforms.  This volume does not contain any Extended             
Attribute Records (XAR).  Thus, VMS users may have some problems             
accessing files on this volume.                                              
                                                                             
                                                                             
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File Formats                                                                 
========================================================================     
                                                                             
The data files on this volume are binary files.  Browse data are             
provided in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.  All data files are      
described by detached PDS labels.  A detached label file has the same        
name as the data file that it describes, but with the extension .LBL.        
For example, the file T1999227_HFR0.DAT is accompanied by the detached       
label file T1999227_HFR0.LBL in the same directory.  File names within       
this archive comply with the "27.3" convention for compliance with           
ISO 9660 Level 2 interchange requirements.                                   
                                                                             
All documents, detached PDS labels, and HTML files are stream format         
files, with a carriage return (ASCII 13) and a line feed character           
(ASCII 10) at the end of the record.  This allows the files to be read       
by MacOS, DOS, Windows, UNIX, and VMS operating systems.  UNIX system        
users may see an unnecessary carriage return character (^M) at the end       
of each line.  Mac users may see an unnecessary line feed character (^J)     
at the start of each line.                                                   
                                                                             
The document, PDS label files on this volume can be viewed with a Web        
browser.  Note that to view these files, the browser may need to be          
configured to recognize files with extensions of .CAT, .LBL, and .TAB as     
text files.  Users with Web browsers also can navigate the disk via the      
HTML file AAREADME.HTM in the disk's root directory and the HTML files       
in the BROWSE directory.                                                     
                                                                             
PDS labels are object-oriented.  The object to which the label refers        
(e.g., SERIES, TABLE, etc.) is denoted by a statement of the form:           
                                                                             
^object                 = location                                           
                                                                             
in which the caret character (^, also called a pointer in this context)      
indicates that the object starts at the given location.  For an object       
in the same file as the label, the location is an integer representing       
the starting record number or byte of the object (the first record/byte      
in the file is 1).  For an object located outside the label file, the        
location denotes the name of the file containing the object, along with      
the starting record or byte number.  For example:                            
                                                                             
^SPECTRAL_DENSITY_TABLE = ("T1999227_HFR0.DAT", 4)                           
                                                                             
indicates that the SPECTRAL_DENSITY_TABLE object begins at record 4 of       
the file T1999227_HFR0.DAT, in the same directory as the detached label      
file.  Below is a list of the possible formats that use the ^object          
keyword.                                                                     
                                                                             
^object = n                                                                  
^object = n❮BYTES❯                                                           
^object = ("filename.ext",n)                                                 
^object = ("filename.ext",n❮BYTES❯)                                          
                                                                             
    where                                                                    
    n is the starting record or byte number of the object, counting from     
    the beginning of the file (record 1, byte 1); default is record          
    number.                                                                  
    ❮BYTES❯ indicates that number given is in units of bytes.                
    filename upper-case file name.                                           
    ext upper-case file extension.                                           
                                                                             
In cases where many files of the same format or structure are present,       
the structure description component is detached from the primary label.      
This minimizes repeating information which does not vary from file to        
file.  In these cases, a format file (.FMT) contains the file structure      
information and the base label (.LBL) describes the parameters which         
generally do vary from file to file (number of records, file name,           
start/stop time, etc.).  When a format file is used within the PDS label,    
the syntax is:                                                               
                                                                             
^STRUCTURE              = filename                                           
                                                                             
Example:                                                                     
                                                                             
^STRUCTURE              = "LRFULL_TABLE.FMT"                                 
                                                                             
Syntactically, the contents of the format file can be inserted directly      
into the base label such that the entire file contents replace the           
single line ^STRUCTURE = filename.  Note that these shared format files      
are collected in the top-level LABEL directory on this volume.               
                                                                             
                                                                             
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Errata                                                                       
========================================================================     
                                                                             
There is a file called ERRATA.TXT found at the root level of this volume     
which contains a list of known deficiencies or caveats associated with       
data on this volume at the time it was published.                            
                                                                             
If you find an error on this volume, please report the error to the PDS      
Operator at the PPI Node of the PDS.                                         
                                                                             
    Email               pds_operator@igpp.ucla.edu                           
    Telephone           (310) 206-6073                                       
    U.S. Mail           PDS Operator                                         
                        c/o Dr. Raymond Walker                               
                        UCLA - IGPP                                          
                        Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567                           
                                                                             
Only through support and feedback of the users of these data can an          
effective errata list be maintained.                                         
                                                                             
                                                                             
========================================================================     
Software                                                                     
========================================================================     
                                                                             
Example code for reading some of the binary data file formats on this        
volume are available in the EXTRAS/SOFTWARE directory.  This software is     
provided "as is" and is distributed as a service to the community.           
                                                                             
    * WBR_WFR_LIST.C reads binary RPWS_WAVEFORM_FULL and                     
      RPWS_WIDEBAND_FULL files and produces a calibrated listing             
      including status information.                                          
                                                                             
See the file EXTRAS/SOFTWARE/SOFTINFO.TXT for further information.           
                                                                             
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Volume Contents and Structure                                                
========================================================================     
                                                                             
This section describes the volume structure and naming conventions.          
Below is a tree diagram of the volume, followed by a description of the      
directory function and key files in each directory.                          
                                                                             
[CORPWS_9004] (root directory)                                               
   |                                                                         
   |- AAREADME.TXT      Plain text describing volume contents,               
   |                    organization, and use (this file)                    
   |                                                                         
   |- ERRATA.TXT        Describes known deficiencies or caveats in the       
   |                    data on this volume.                                 
   |                                                                         
   |- VOLDESC.CAT       High level description of volume contents.           
   |                                                                         
   |- [BROWSE]          Contains browse plots depicting the data.            
   |     |                                                                   
   |     |- [ANCILLARY]         Ancillary support files.                     
   |     |                                                                   
   |     |- [RPWS_WAVEFORM_FULL] Plots for this data set.                    
   |                                                                         
   |- [CATALOG]         Information on data sets and how they are            
   |                    processed and produced, on Cassini spacecraft        
   |                    and mission, on RPWS instrument, on cognizant        
   |                    personnel, and on references to various              
   |                    related documents.                                   
   |                                                                         
   |- [DATA]            Contains text and binary files of instrument         
   |     |              measurements and supporting information              
   |     |              constituting the primary archive products.           
   |     |                                                                   
   |     |- [ANCILLARY]         Ancillary support files.                     
   |     |                                                                   
   |     |- [RPWS_WAVEFORM_FULL] Data files for this data set.               
   |                                                                         
   |- [DOCUMENT]        Instrument paper, RPWS calibration document,         
   |                    RPWS users' guide.                                   
   |                                                                         
   |- [EXTRAS]          Bonus content not necessarily conforming to          
   |     |              PDS archive standards.                               
   |     |                                                                   
   |     |- [SEQUENCE_INFO]     Instrument sequence information.             
   |     |                                                                   
   |     |- [SOFTWARE]          Example code.                                
   |                                                                         
   |- [INDEX]           Volume and cumulative indices of archive             
   |                    products.                                            
   |                                                                         
   |- [LABEL]           Shared format descriptions.                          
                                                                             
                                                                             
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Contacts                                                                     
========================================================================     
                                                                             
The person most directly responsible for the construction and release of     
this archive volume is Mr. Steven Joy.  He was the PPI Node Data             
Administrator at the time this volume was created and understands as much    
about the volume structure and data organization as anyone.  Other PPI       
personnel who may be aware of issues related to this archive volume          
include Dr. William Kurth and Dr. Raymond Walker, the PDS/PPI Node           
manager.                                                                     
                                                                             
For questions or problems regarding this volume, please contact the          
PDS/PPI operator:                                                            
                                                                             
    Email               pds_operator@igpp.ucla.edu                           
    Telephone           (310) 206-6073                                       
    U.S. Mail           PDS Operator                                         
                        c/o Dr. Raymond Walker                               
                        3845 Slichter Hall                                   
                        UCLA - IGPP                                          
                        Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567                           
                                                                             
For questions regarding PDS Standards or other archive volumes available     
from the PDS, please contact PDS Operator at the PDS Central Node (at        
JPL):                                                                        
                                                                             
    Email               pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov                            
    U.S. Mail           Planetary Data System, PDS Operator                  
                        Jet Propulsion Laboratory                            
                        Mail Stop 202-101                                    
                        4800 Oak Grove Dr.                                   
                        Pasadena, CA 91109-8099                              
                                                                             
                                                                             
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Disclaimer                                                                   
=======================================================================      
                                                                             
The PDS and the Planetary Plasma Interactions (PPI) Node in particular,      
assume no legal liability for errors on this volume.  All users are          
encouraged to verify the "correctness" of the data prior to submitting       
any publications or other work based on these data.  Errors on this volume   
should be reported back to the PPI Node of the PDS through the ERRATA        
reporting procedures described above.                                        
                                                                             
All trademarks are acknowledged as the property of their respective          
owners.  The producers and publishers of this archive do not endorse any     
commercial entities which may be mentioned for clarity.                      
                                                                             
                                                                             
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Acknowledgements                                                             
=======================================================================      
                                                                             
These data were collected under the auspices of the Cassini Project.         
Donald A. Gurnett was the Radio and Plasma Wave Science Principal            
Investigator.  The archiving effort at The University of Iowa was            
supported by T. Averkamp, L. Granroth,  R. Johnson, C. Piker and             
W. Robison.                                                                  
                                                                             
This archiving effort was supported by the Planetary Plasma Interactions     
Node of the Planetary Data System.  Assistance was provided by S. Joy        
and J. Mafi of the University of California, Los Angeles, and by R.          
Joyner and S. Adams of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.                        
                                                                             
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