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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 01-054
Date: 26 March 2001
Location: Texas / Louisiana / Gulf of Mexico
Deployment: TX-2001
Principal Investigators: Moeller (UWisc) / Handley (USGS)
Additional Sensors: S-HIS, VIS, 12" RC-10 (CIR), Dual HR-732 (CIR)
Objective: Terra Underpass @17:13 for MODIS IR comparisons; Louisiana wetlands mapping
Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
The Minco Heater ouput was insufficient to counter the extremely cold ambient air temperatures.
Port 3 (bands 26-41; 3.04-5.44µm) remains noisy, but it's performance remains stable and is much improved over first several flights in this campaign.
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table
Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 17
Scanlines: 101958
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 15:42-15:55 86 29.29-29.32 95.62-93.96 4837 19250
2 16:00-16:02 13 29.12-29.38 93.62-93.54 950 19788
3 16:06-16:21 189 29.34-27.65 93.80-94.24 5620 20049
4 16:25-16:41 10 27.62-29.28 93.88-93.45 5759 20261
5 16:45-16:59 191 29.28-27.68 93.82-94.23 5258 20106
6 17:03-17:19 20 27.61-29.20 93.88-93.45 5726 19927
7 17:20-17:47 86 29.27-29.27 93.32-89.75 10000 18872
8 17:47-17:52 87 29.27-29.26 89.75-88.99 2133 18402
9 17:55-18:23 277 29.45-29.46 88.97-92.34 10549 18409
10 18:28-18:50 86 29.36-29.36 92.09-89.12 8238 18367
11 18:53-19:20 283 29.54-29.56 89.05-92.23 10000 18357
12 19:20-19:35 274 29.56-29.70 92.23-93.98 5619 18390
13 19:39-20:01 89 29.84-29.86 93.76-90.79 8143 18362
14 20:04-20:18 289 30.07-30.42 90.73-92.36 5423 18445
15 20:19-20:31 277 30.43-30.44 92.39-93.81 4547 18415
16 20:36-20:39 88 30.34-30.34 94.00-93.49 1408 18410
17 20:43-21:03 260 30.09-29.99 93.41-95.89 7748 18481
Images 01 through 17 in sequence
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Flight 01-054

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Sample Imagery
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Track #12
Texas Coast
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm