ANCILLARY INFORMATION

Flight: 00-020-23
Date: September 06, 2000
Aircraft: DC-8, Aircraft Number 817
Deployment: PACRIM II
Flight Location: Finke River, Ellery Creek, Palm Creek, Kunoth, Torbay, Elasghin, Cervantes; Australia
Principal Investigator: Crawford (UT); Hill , Tapley (AUS)
Additional Sensors: AirSAR
Objective:
Elasghin - Research and evaluation of AIRSAR data for landcover and condition mapping in southwest of Western Australia.
Torbay - Evaluate estimation of woody biomass in ecosystems of contrasting structure and density.
Kunoth, Finke River - Floodplain modeling based on data fusion of polarimetric SAR interferometry and laser altimetry. In addition data will be used for soil moisture and land cover characterization.

Calibration and Level-1B Processing Information
Level-1B Data processed by: NASA Airborne Sensor Facility
Level-1B Data Version: 2
Level-1B Configuration File
Calibration Type: Final
Calibration Version: 1
Temperature Adjustment: No
Status: Level-1B data available

Spectral Information
Spectral Channel Summary
Spectral Response Function Table

Data Evaluation
Dropped sacanlines in each flightline.
Fair amount of spikes (bad pixel values) in video data, which correspond to the first band of each QUAD ADC card (channels 1,5,9,11,15,19,24,25).
Occasional bad lines due to spikes in black body video counts.