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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 01-056
Date: 1 April 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 @16:35 for MODIS IR comparisons; Louisiana wetlands mapping

Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
Excessive cooling of the scanhead due to extremely cold ambient air temps (-71 C)
Excessive heating of the digitizer, with temps reaching almost 50 C inside the unit

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

Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 19
Scanlines: 101423

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 14:59-15:04 90 29.28-29.28 95.34-94.62 2021 18711
2 15:11-15:38 88 29.40-29.46 94.49-90.87 10000 18791
3 15:44-16:02 103 29.48-28.93 90.57-88.35 6513 18874
4 16:02-16:07 110 28.92-28.76 88.33-87.75 1714 19565
5 16:08-16:23 194 28.65-27.06 87.66-88.06 5512 19858
6 16:27-16:40 14 26.98-28.46 87.72-87.34 4902 19927
7 16:44-16:58 202 28.57-27.05 87.66-88.06 5283 19896
8 17:02-17:15 6 27.03-28.47 87.70-87.34 4725 19939
9 17:16-17:35 303 28.60-29.54 87.41-89.25 6771 19101
10 17:35-18:02 273 29.56-29.56 89.30-92.34 10000 18358
11 18:02-18:16 269 29.56-29.70 92.35-93.98 5297 18337
12 18:20-18:42 99 29.90-29.86 93.75-90.79 8177 18344
13 18:43-18:48 64 29.87-30.12 90.73-90.09 1913 18345
14 18:48-18:54 83 30.14-30.15 90.02-89.21 2156 18420
15 18:56-19:01 285 30.31-30.38 89.17-89.71 1758 18604
16 19:01-19:28 308 30.40-32.25 89.75-92.25 10000 19257
17 19:28-19:35 307 32.25-32.72 92.25-92.93 2537 19745
18 19:36-20:03 237 32.72-31.09 93.08-95.87 10000 19627
19 20:03-20:09 238 31.09-30.74 95.87-96.45 2144 19478
Images 01 through 19 in sequence
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Flight 01-056

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Sample Imagery
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Track #3
Mississippi River Delta
(Louisiana)
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm