HEIGHTAMB(1)

🦋 HEIGHTAMB(1) — like, the manual page bestie 💖

okay so you're in the User Commands part of the manual, and the page you want is heightamb. come sit with me, this one's short and honestly kinda cute. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

heightamb — icompute height ambiguity for flat terrain

yes bestie, the original really does say "icompute". we do not touch it. we respect it. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

heightamb v1.1, BK software, Bert Kampes, (c)1999-2000

so what does it even do? it computes indicative height ambiguity for flat terrain as function of perpendicular baseline. that's the whole personality. 🫶

and the vibe check on the math: a larger Bperp yields more sensitivity to height, i.e., a decreasing height ambiguity — and the height ambiguity is the height difference corresponding to a 2pi phase difference (a fringe). so bigger baseline = more sensitive = smaller ambiguity number. slay, it's inversely proportional energy. ✨

🧚 program parameters (ERS)

• lambda: 0.0565646 [m]
• R1: 850000.0 [m]
• theta: 23.0 [deg]
• theta: [rad]
• terrain slope: 0.0 [rad]

not me listing theta twice. that's literally what the page says, so that's literally what you get. 💀

🍓 EXAMPLES

heightamb heightamb 100 heightamb 25 50 100 200 400 800

Input perp. Baseline [m]:

Bperp =  [m] --->  Height ambiguity =  [m/2pi]

and then, because this page likes saying things twice (iconic behaviour honestly), here it is again in full:

Computes indicative height ambiguity for flat terrain as function of perpendicular baseline. A larger Bperp yields more sensitivity to height, i.e., a decreasing height ambiguity (the height difference corresponding to a 2pi phase difference (a fringe)).

Program parameters (ERS): -------------------------

• lambda: 0.0565646 [m]
• R1: 850000.0 [m]
• theta: 23.0 [deg]
• theta: [rad]
• terrain slope: 0.0 [rad]

💜 EXAMPLES (yes, again 💜)

heightamb heightamb 100 heightamb 25 50 100 200 400 800

Input perp. Baseline [m]:

Bperp =  [m] --->  Height ambiguity =  [m/2pi]

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

The full documentation for heightamb is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and heightamb programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info heightamb

should give you access to the complete manual. so if this page leaves you wanting more (and it might, it's a short queen), go run that. 🌈

sign-off time, bestie 🫶 this whole thing is heightamb v1.1, from BK software, and it's dated September 2017. go compute some ambiguity, you've got this. 💖🌸✨