Operation Manual
SYSTEM
OCR-504 Multispectral Radiometer
SECTION
D - OPERATION
Channel (
4
)
4
A BF formatted value (single-precision floating
point) representing the calibrated output
(engineering units) from the fourth optical
channel. For an irradiance sensor, the units
are “uW/cm
2
/nm”; for a radiance sensor, the
units are “uW/cm
2
/
nm/sr”.
Vin Sense
2
This field contains a BU formatted value
indicating the regulated input voltage.
Int. Temp.
2
This field contains a BU formatted value
indicating the internal temperature of the
instrument.
FRAME
COUNTER
1
A BU formatted data integrity sensor that
maintains a count of each frame transmitted.
The count increments by one for each frame
transmitted from 0 to 255, at which point it rolls
back to zero again.
CHECK SUM
1
This is a BU formatted data integrity sensor
which implements a check sum on the
telemetry frame.
TERMINATOR
2
This field indicates the end of the frame. The
frame is terminated by a carriage return/line
feed pair (0D
hex
and 0A
hex
).
ASCII
T
ELEMETRY
–
R
AW
ADC
C
OUNTS
O
NLY
Data is presented as tab-delimited ASCII text. Only optical channel data is
provided, in raw ADC counts; this is known as the “short” frame type.
Relevant configuration parameters:
frametype: short
usecal: off
Field Name
Field
Size
(bytes)
Description
Instrument
6
A unique 6 character AS formatted string
denoting the start of a frame of telemetry. For
irradiance sensors, the instrument string is
“SATAI4”; for radiance sensors, the string is
“SATAR4”.