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 161 - 180 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer FTIR
Michael Coffey
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer HCl; ClONO2; N2O; NO; NO2; HNO3; HF; CH4; C2H6; H2O; CO2; CF2Cl2; O3
Gas and Aerosol Measurement Sensor/Langley Airborne A-Band Spectrometer GAMS/LAABS
Michael Pitts
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Solar Occultation; Spectrometer (in situ) Optical Depth
GeoCAPE Airborne Spectrometer GCAS
Scott Janz
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer NO2; CH2O
Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer GIFS
Sam Yee
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Spectrometer Cloud Thickness
Global Ice-sheet Mapping Orbiter GISMO
Ken Jezek
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Interferometer; Radar Topography
Airborne Glacier and Land Ice Surface Topography Interferometer GLISTIN-A
Delwyn Moller
(PI) 		Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC Interferometer; Radar Topography
GPS Flight Management System GPFMS
William Krabill
(Prev PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Navigation recorder Aircraft position
Sea Surface Wind Speed GPS-R Winds
Jim Garrison
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; P-3 Orion - WFF Sounder Wind
GPS Remote Sensing Instrument GPSRS
Michael Grant
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Soil Moisture
Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer GT-CIMS
L. Greg Huey
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF CIMS HNO3; SO2; HNO4; HCl; Br2; BrO; PAN
Georgia Tech Laser-Induced Fluorescence GT-LIF
David Tan
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Fluorescence NO; CH2O; NO2
Georgia Tech NO Instrument GT-NO
L. Greg Huey
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Chemiluminescence NO
Harvard Halogen Instrument HAL
David Wilmouth
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC; ER-2 - AFRC Fluorescence BrO; ClO; CIONO2
High Altitude Lidar Observatory HALO
Amin R. Nehrir
(PI) 		DC-8- AFRC; C-130- WFF; P-3 Orion - WFF; B200 - LARC; B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC; DC-8 - AFRC; Gulfstream V - JSC; Gulfstream III - LaRC Lidar water vapor profiles; methane columns and profiles; Aerosol Depolarization Ratio; Aerosol Scattering Ratio; Aerosol Backscattering; Aerosol Extinction
High Altitude Monolithic Microwave integrated Circuit (MMIC) Sounding Radiometer HAMSR
Shannon Brown
(Mgr) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC Sounder; Microwave Radiometer Temperature; H2O
HIAPER Airborne Radiation Package HARP
Samuel R. Hall
(PI) 		Gulfstream V - NSF; C-130 - NSF; ER-2 - AFRC Radiometer Actinic Flux; Irradiance
High-Sensitivity Fast-Response CO2 Analyzer Harvard CO2
Steven C. Wofsy
(PI) 		Balloon; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer (in situ) CO2
Hawkeye Hawkeye
Paul Lawson
(PI) 		Global Hawk - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Particle imager Particle size distribution
HDVIS HDVIS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr)
High Frame Rate Slit-less Spectrograph HFRS
Geoff McHarg
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Camera; Spectrometer (in situ) Imagery