ANCILLARY INFORMATION

Flight: 98-010-02
Date: September 18, 1998
Aircraft: DOE B200 Beechcraft
Deployment: RSL-Aug98
Flight Location: SALSA site, Arizona
Principal Investigator: Dr. Anne Kahle (JPL), Dr. John Schieldge (JPL)
Additional Sensors: 6" RC-30 (CIR)
Objective: MASTER imagery is part of the data set associated with the Semi-Arid Land Surface Atmosphere (SALSA) experiment, an ongoing effort to study the meteorological and hydrological dynamics of the San Pedro River Basin in Arizona. MASTER data will provide input for algorithms that estimate surface energy balance and evapotranspiration on a regional basis.

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

Spectral Information
Spectral Channel Summary
Spectral Response Function Table

Data Evaluation

Timecode is offset by 10 hours. ASCOT nav data offset (10:00:36).
Port 4 coherent noise continues.
Port 4 head counts remain above zero because BB1 set to ambient temperature.
Band 41, when the ambient BB cools from 16 C to 5 C (record 12988) the video counts drop from 20 C to 4 C. Could be an effect caused by absorption feature.
Analog offset varies wildly through the flight but continues to shift and does not peg at a high or low end value.