The Airborne Science Instrument Database provides details on the science instruments that have been used as part of NASA-funded airborne research.

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Currently displayed: instruments 21 - 40 of 107.

Title Acronymsort descending Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Airborne Ocean Color Imager AOCI James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Airborne Raman Ozone, Temperature, and Aerosol Lidar AROTAL Thomas J. McGee (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Lidar, Raman spectrometer Temperature, , O3, Aerosol Backscattering, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Depolarization Ratio
Airborne Submillimeter Radiometer ASUR Harry Kullmann (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Radiometer ClO, HCl, HNO3, N2O, O3
Airborne Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer - 3 AVIRIS-3 Robert O. Green (PI) B200 - Dynamic Aviation, G-III, G-V-JSC Spectrometer Radiance from the surface and atmosphere.
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer AVIRIS-Classic Robert O. Green (PI) ER-2 - AFRC, Proteus, Twin Otter, WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer Imagery
Next-Generation Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer AVIRIS-NG Robert O. Green (PI) ER-2 - AFRC, Twin Otter, Gulfstream III - LaRC, Gulfstream G-5 Spectrometer Imagery
BroadBand Radiometers BBR Anthony Bucholtz (PI) DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, WB-57 - JSC Radiometer Solar and IR radiative flux; Total, Direct, Diffuse Solar radiative flux
Conically-Scanning Two-look Airborne Radiometer C-STAR Anthony Guillory (Mgr) DC-8 - AFRC Radiometer Wind, Rain Rate
Cloud Absorption Radiometer CAR Charles Gatebe (PI) J-31, P-3 Orion - WFF, Convair 580 NRC, Naval Research Lab (NRL) P-3 Orion, C-131A University of Washington Radiometer Solar flux, Imagery
Chicago Water Isotope Spectrometer Chi-WIS Benjamin Clouser (Mgr) WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer H2O, HDO
Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer CoSMIR Rachael Kroodsma (PI) ER-2 - AFRC, DC-8 - AFRC Radiometer Brightness Temperature
Configurable Scanning Submillimeter-wave Instrument/Radiometer CoSSIR Rachael Kroodsma (PI) ER-2 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC Microwave Radiometer Brightness Temperature
Composition and Photo-Dissociative Flux Measurement CPFM C. Thomas McElroy (PI) ER-2 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC Radiometer, Spectrometer (in situ) Solar flux
Digital Camera System DCS James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) B200 - LARC, DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, Twin Otter - GRC, WB-57 - JSC Camera Imagery
Direct beam Irradiance Airborne Spectrometer DIAS Samuel R. Hall (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Aerosol, Optical Depth, O3
Ames Digital Imager DIM Paul F. Wercinski (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Digital Mapping System DMS James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, HU-25A Guardian - LaRC, Gulfstream V - NSF Camera Imagery
Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator eMAS Steve Platnick (Co-I) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Electronically Scanning Thinned-Array Radiometer ESTAR David Levine (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Radiometer Soil Moisture, Ocean Salinity
Fabry-Perot Interferometer FPI Jay R. Herman (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Interferometer O2, CO2

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