Title | Acronym | Contact Person | NASA Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer | AVIRIS-Classic | Robert O. Green (PI) | JPL | ER-2 - AFRC, Proteus, Twin Otter, WB-57 - JSC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Cross-track scanning
| 12000 m (at 20 km)
| 20 m (at 20 km)
| 31 channels at 410-700 nm; 63 channels at 680-1270 nm; 63 channels at 1250-1860 nm; 63 channels at 1840-2450 nm | 9.4 nm bandwidth | ||
Digital Mapping System | DMS | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | USRA | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, HU-25A Guardian - LaRC, Gulfstream V - NSF | Camera | Imagery | Ground
| Downwards pointing but not directly downwards
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Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator | eMAS | Steve Platnick (Co-I) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 6.25 Hz
| 36000 m (at 19.8 km)
| 50 m (at 19.8 km)
| 38 channels at 0.4649-14.18 µm | ||
Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor | LVIS | J. Bryan Blair (PI) | NASA GSFC | 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 | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 2000 m (at 10 km)
| 20 m (at 10 km)
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MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator | MASTER | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | USRA | B-200 - DOE - ARC, DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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National Airborne Sounder Testbed - Interferometer | NAST-I | Anna Noe (Mgr) | NASA LaRC | ER-2 - AFRC, Proteus, WB-57 - JSC | Interferometer | Temperature, Relative Humidity | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 2300 m (at 1 km)
| 130 m (at 1 km)
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Next-Generation Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer | AVIRIS-NG | Robert O. Green (PI) | JPL | ER-2 - AFRC, Twin Otter, Gulfstream III - LaRC, Gulfstream G-5 | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Cross-track scanning
| 100 Hz
| 4000 m (at 8 km)
| 8 m (at 8 km)
| 380-2510 nm | ||
Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar | UAVSAR | Yunling Lou (PI) | JPL | Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC, Gulfstream III - JSC | Radar | Imagery | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 20000 m (at 12 km)
| 6 m (at 12 km)
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