Airborne Science Instrument Database

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 356.
Title Acronym Sort ascending Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Tropospheric Ozone and Tracers from Commercial Aircraft Platforms TOTCAP (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Laser absorption; Spectrometer (in situ) O3; H2O; CO2
Trace Organic Gas Analyzer TOGA (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF; C-130 - NSF Gas chromatography; Spectrometer (in situ) VOCs; alkanes; alkenes; aromatics; NMHC; Hydrocarbons; OVOCs; halogenates; alkyl nitriles; Alkyl Nitrates; sulfur-containing VOCs
Thematic Mapper Simulator TMS (Mgr) ER-2 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Thickness from Offbeam Returns THOR (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Lidar Cloud Thickness
Telescopic High Definition Television THDTV (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Tissue Equivalent Particle Counter TEPC (PI) ER-2 - AFRC
Thermal-Dissociation Laser Induced Fluorescence TD-LIF (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Fluorescence NO2; ∑PNs; ∑ANs; HNO3
Turbulent Air Motion Measurement System TAMMS (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Navigation recorder Aircraft position; Temperature; Pressure; H2O
Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer SSFR (Co-I) Altair; DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC; J-31; P-3 Orion - WFF; C-130H - WFF; Twin Otter - CIRPAS - NPS Radiometer Solar flux; Irradiance
SPP-100 SPP (PI) WB-57 - JSC Optical particle counter; Spectrometer (in situ) Particle concentration
Spectro-Polarimeter for Exploration - Airborne SPEX Airborne (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Polarimeter
Single Particle Soot Photometer (NOAA) SP2 (PI) C-130H - WFF; DC-8 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; GV - NCAR; Gulfstream III - LaRC Photometer Black Carbon; Aerosol
G-V Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer SMPS (PI) Gulfstream V - NSF Differential mobility Aerosol Size Distribution
Submillimeter Limb Sounder SLS (PI) Balloon; ER-2 - AFRC Limb Sounder ClO; O3; HCl; HNO3; N2O
Fibre-optic Fed Slit-Spectrograph SLIT (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer (in situ) Brightness Temperature
Sea Ice Thickness Penetrating Radar Instrument SITPRI (PI) Radar Ice Sheet Thickness
Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar SIMPL (PI) Learjet 25; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC Lidar Sea Ice Surface Elevation; Ice Sheet Thickness
Small Ice Detector SID (PI) C-130H - WFF; DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF; WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC Particle imager Particle size distribution
2 Channel Selected Ion Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer SI/CIMS-2 (PI) C-130H - WFF; P-3 Orion - WFF CIMS OH; H2SO4; CH4SO3; DMSO; NH3; Aerosol
Single Event Upset SEU (PI) ER-2 - AFRC