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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 01-049
Date: 15 March 2001
Location: DFRC to Kelly AFB, TX
Deployment: TX-2001
Principal Investigators: Moeller (UWisc)
Additional Sensors: VIS, 12" RC-10 (BW), Dual HR-732 (CIR)
Objective: Ferry to Texas in preparation of the TX-2001 Campaign
Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
Port 3 (bands 26-41; 3.04-5.44µm) is very noisy and generally performed rather poorly.
There appears to have been a LN2 blowoff in channel 50 toward the end of the flight, during which the pilot reported serious porpoising of the aircraft.
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table
Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 5
Scanlines: 38448
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 17:31-17:57 111 34.55-33.44 115.59-111.98 10000 19140
2 17:57-18:24 110 33.44-32.44 111.98-108.36 10000 19911
3 18:24-18:51 110 32.44-31.44 108.36-104.79 10000 19867
4 18:51-19:09 112 31.44-30.78 104.79-102.47 6527 19849
5 19:09-19:14 109 30.77-30.61 102.45-101.76 1921 18850
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Flight 01-049

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Sample Imagery
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Track #4
Southern New Mexico
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm