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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 00-152
Date: 27 August 2000
Location: South Africa and Botswana
Deployment: SAFARI
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael King (NASA GSFC)
Flight Scientist: Dr. Michael King (NASA GSFC)
Additional Sensors: AirMISR, CLS, LAS, MOPITT-A, S-HIS, & SSFR
Objective: To understand the key linkages between the physical, chemical and biological processes, including human activities, that comprise the southern African biogeophysical system.

Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good

Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table

Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 16
Scanlines: 102007

Browse Imagery Table
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Lat/Lon ranges are for the BEG-END scanline nadir pixels
Flight
Track
Time Span
(GMT)
Heading
(Deg)
Lat Range
(Deg North)
Lon Range
(Deg West)
Length
(scanlines)
Altitude
(meters)
1 08:13-08:28 310 22.07-20.99 28.48-27.03 5748 18884
2 08:29-08:37 320 20.97-20.22 27.01-26.36 3148 19673
3 08:39-08:55 192 20.25-22.00 26.14-25.75 5955 19839
4 09:01-09:19 14 22.21-20.29 25.71-26.12 6512 19922
5 09:21-09:48 275 20.15-19.90 25.93-22.69 9999 19986
6 09:48-09:54 276 19.90-19.84 22.69-22.05 1981 19975
7 09:55-10:08 6 19.72-18.27 21.94-22.14 4921 20031
8 10:13-10:31 192 18.27-20.35 22.49-22.00 6930 19964
9 10:36-10:56 16 20.42-18.17 22.37-22.86 7737 20064
10 11:01-11:20 190 18.21-20.36 23.23-22.74 7199 20139
11 11:24-11:47 16 20.41-17.96 23.11-23.66 8426 20123
12 11:51-12:18 190 18.03-21.03 23.98-23.35 9999 20169
13 12:18-12:28 192 21.03-22.21 23.35-23.10 3971 20159
14 12:29-12:40 264 22.30-22.39 22.99-21.65 4100 20067
15 12:42-12:59 170 22.53-24.40 21.53-21.98 6387 20111
16 13:01-13:25 91 24.49-24.27 22.10-25.01 8994 20253
Images 01 through 16 in sequence
Flight Summary Report

Author: Dr. Michael King
Mission Scientist: Dr. Michael King
ER-2 Pilot: Ken Broda
Takeoff: 0745 (UTC)
Landing: 1420 (UTC)
Duration: 6:35 (h:mm)

Objective and Summary:

  1. Overfly Francistown en route to the Terra overpass of the Sowa Pan MISR ground site (20° 33´ S, 26° 04´ E).

Key Flight Legs:

The ER-2 made two flight legs 208 km in length over the Sowa Pan along the orbital inclination of Terra (192.0°), passing over the ground site at ~0845 UTC. The ER-2 then flew over the Maun Tower and proceeded across the Okavango Delta, where it turned and made a series of 6 parallel flight lines mapping out the entire delta region. The final flight leg took it once again over the Maun Tower en route to two sites that were characterized in detail during the Kalahari Transect in March (Okwa River Crossing at 22° 24´ S, 21° 43´ E and Tsane at 24° 09´ S, 21° 54´ E).

The RC-10 camera was turned on for flights over Francistown and Sowa Pan (both flight legs), Maun Tower, the Okwa River Crossing, and Tsane.

Highlights:

N/A

AERONET sites and features overflown during this mission:

  • Sowa Pan (20° 33´ S, 26° 04´ E)
  • Maun Tower (19° 55´ S, 23° 36´ E)

Pilot Report:

The skies were largely cloud free and the visibility quite clear. The pilot noted some fires and burn scars in and around the Okavanga Delta.

Meteorology:

The Atlantic High ridged along the south and southeast coast, inducing southeasterlies and partly cloudy conditions. The Indian Ocean High continued to induce southeasterlies over the lowveld and Mozambique, causing partly cloudy skies over these areas. The well-established high over the interior forced another sunny day over the interior.

ER-2 Science Instrument Payload Status

  • AirMISR: not on aircraft; being repaired
  • CLS: Lidar worked properly, but navigation data not recorded
  • LAS: worked well
  • MAS: worked well
  • MOPITT-A: worked well
  • SHIS: operated in scanning mode; worked well
  • SSFR: worked well
  • RC-10: worked well

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Sample Imagery
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Track #1
Botswana
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R: 11.01µm
G: 2.15µm
B: 0.46µm

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Track #3
Botswana
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R: 11.01µm
G: 2.15µm
B: 0.46µm