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 201 - 220 of 356.
Title Sort descending Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
L-Band Interference Surveyor/Analyzer LISA (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Interference
Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor LVIS (PI) B200 - LARC; C-130H - WFF; Cessna 402B; Citation; DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Gulfstream III - LaRC; Gulfstream V - JSC; Gulfstream V - NSF; B200 - Dynamic Aviation Lidar Vegetation; Vegetation structure; surface topography; ice and sea ice elevations; ocean surface topography
Langley Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Langley HR-ToF-AMS (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; HU-25 Falcon - LaRC; C-130H - WFF Spectrometer (in situ) Aerosol Mass Concentrations of Organics; Sulfate; Nitrate; Ammonium; Chloride
Langley Aerosol Research Group Experiment LARGE (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; C-130H - WFF; P-3 Orion - WFF; HU-25 Falcon - LaRC; King Air B-200 - LaRC/Dynamic; Twin Otter - CIRPAS - NPS CN counter; Nephelometer; Optical particle counter Aerosol Number Concentration; Aerosol Size Distribution; Scattering Coefficient; Absorption Coefficient
Langley Cloud Probes Langley In-situ Cloud (Co-I) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; C-130H - WFF; HU-25 Falcon - LaRC Particle imager Cloud Droplet Number and Size Distributions; Cloud Droplet Effective Radius and Variance; Precipitation Particle Number and Size Distribution; Cloud Liquid Water Content; Cloud Ice Water Content
Langley In Situ Fast-Response Ozone Measurements FASTOZ (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Chemiluminescence O3
Langley Single Particle Soot Photometer Langley SP2 (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF; C-130H - WFF Laser absorption Black carbon mass concentrations
Langley Wideband Integrated Bioaerosol Sensor Langley WIBS (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; C-130H - WFF Fluorescence Biological aerosol number concentration; biological aerosol fraction
Large Area Collectors LAC (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Cosmic Dust
Large Pixel Format CCD Camera (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Laser Imaging Nephelometer LI-Nephelometer (PI) Twin Otter - CIRPAS - NPS; DC-8 - AFRC Nephelometer
Laser Induced Fluorescence – Nitrogen Oxide LIF-NO (PI) WB-57 - JSC Fluorescence NO
Laser Induced Fluorescence – Sulfur Dioxide LIF-SO2 (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC Fluorescence SO2
Leica RC-30 metric camera RC-30 (Mgr) B200 - LARC; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Camera Imagery
Leonardo Airborne Simulator LAS (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Lidar Atmosphere Sensing Experiment LASE (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Lidar H2O; Aerosol Backscattering
Lightning Instrument Project LIP (Mgr) DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC Electric field; Lightning; Air Conductivity
Lightweight Balloon Interferometer LWBI (PI) Balloon Interferometer
Lyman Alpha-Hygrometer (PI) ER-2 - AFRC
MACRES Ground Receiving Station (MGRS) MGRS (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF