MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS)

CAMPAIGN SUMMARY INFORMATION

GSFC Lidar Observation and Validation Experiment (GLOVE) Dates: February 2025 Location: Western USA / Pacific Ocean eMAS Principal Investigator: Dr. Steven Platnick (NASA GSFC) Configuration: 38 Channel Additional Sensors: CPL / CRS Objective: The Science goals for GLOVE are to validate new ICESat-2 atmospheric data products, validate the EarthCARE lidar / radar / spectrometer data products, and test the new Roscoe receiver alignment.
Processing Information Flights Processed: 4 Total Flight Tracks: 42 Total Scanlines: 300,701 Status: Level-1B data is available in netCDF format
eMAS Spectral Information Spectral Band Configuration Spectral Response Function Table
Overpass Information Satellites
GLOVE Missions Click on a Track Map to view a particular mission 12 Feb 2025 Flight: 25-922 18 Feb 2025 Flight: 25-923 19 Feb 2025 Flight: 25-924 20 Feb 2025 Flight: 25-925
Satellite Overpasses Satellite Date Time (UTC) Flight: Track Suomi NPP 2/12/2025 21:30 25-922: 05 EarthCARE 2/12/2025 22:37 25-922: 08 ICESat-2 2/18/2025 21:09 25-923: 07 Suomi NPP 2/18/2025 21:23 25-923: 09 ICESat-2 2/19/2025 20:43 25-924: 02 / 03 EarthCARE 2/19/2025 22:40 25-924: 07 ICESat-2 2/20/2025 20:18 25-925: 03 EarthCARE 2/20/2025 21:49 25-925: 08
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