INSTRUMENT |
Measurements |
Application |
Status |
| MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) |
Visible, Near, Mid and Thermal IR digital multispectral scanner. |
Scaleable resolution (3 - 50 m) earth imaging. AC altitude dependent. |
ARC. Operational - flies on ER-2, B-200, Cessna Caravan, WB-57, DC-8. |
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| Raman Airborne Spectroscopic Lidar (RASL)
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Water Vapor Mixing Ratio, Aerosol backscatter/ extinction/ depolarization, liquid cloud properties, temperature |
mesoscale meteorology, satellite validation |
Operational - Flies on the King Air B200 |
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| Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor (LVIS) |
Waveform scanning laser altimeter instrument. |
Acquires topographic and vegetation coverage data. |
GSFC. Operational - flies on DoE B-200, Dynamic Aviation B-200, NOAA Citation, NASA C-130Q. |
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| Leica RC-30 metric camera |
Aerial film camera system. Color infrared, natural color and black and white film. |
High resolution earth imagery. |
ARC. Operational - flies on ER-2, B-200, WB-57. |
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| Applanix POS System |
POS AV - hardware and software system designed for direct georeferencing of airborne sensor data. |
Facilitates high resolution geo-referencing of multispectral imagery, i.e. MASTER. |
ARC. Operational - flies on B-200, Cessna Caravan, WB-57, DC-8. |
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