ROCIS Flight Paths for Feb 14, 2024

Here, we show mutual-information (MI) Optimal flight paths for February 14, which maximizes the MI between the surface velocity measured on February 14 and Sigma-T on February 16 and 18. In addition, we consider flight paths that are 700 nmi and 805 nmi long. In each case, the flight is allowed to travel in any of N_θ=16 different directions (0° [north], 22.5°, 45°, etc.), in N_s=7 segments between takeoff and landing.

Blue circles in the optimal flight path plots indicate waypoints but data is collected all along the flight paths; datafiles with these coordinates are available for download (see links in fifth column)

700 nmi tracks: Nθ=16 Ns=7
	Histogram of MI	Track with maximum MI	MI along candidate tracks	Waypoint files (optimal track)
optimizing for Feb 16				ASCII | MAT
optimizing for Feb 18				ASCII | MAT
805 nmi tracks: Nθ=16 Ns=7
	Histogram of MI	Track with maximum MI	MI along candidate tracks	Waypoint files (optimal track)
optimizing for Feb 16				ASCII | MAT
optimizing for Feb 18				ASCII | MAT