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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 01-057
Date: 4 April 2001
Location: Texas / Gulf of Mexico
Deployment: TX-2001
Principal Investigators: Moeller (UWisc)
Additional Sensors: S-HIS, VIS
Objective: Terra Underpass @17:06 for MODIS IR comparisons
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
Numerous dropped scanlines due to air turbulence buffetting 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: 12
Scanlines: 66246
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 15:25-15:52 98 29.66-29.24 95.98-92.46 10402 19122
2 15:52-16:21 103 29.24-28.48 92.46-88.91 10584 19923
3 16:25-16:40 187 28.61-27.08 88.99-89.36 5399 19791
4 16:53-16:55 190 27.02-26.80 88.78-88.83 804 19752
5 16:57-17:12 14 26.84-28.44 89.05-88.64 5322 19827
6 17:12-17:15 123 28.48-28.64 88.63-88.89 1094 19891
7 17:16-17:30 192 28.54-27.08 88.98-89.36 5097 19775
8 17:30-17:32 149 27.08-26.90 89.36-89.23 799 19851
9 17:34-17:47 17 27.00-28.44 89.03-88.64 4869 19923
10 17:48-18:15 289 28.56-29.16 88.70-91.96 10043 19910
11 18:15-18:42 280 29.16-29.74 91.96-95.24 10000 19887
12 18:42-18:47 281 29.74-29.84 95.24-95.85 1833 19860
Images 01 through 12 in sequence
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Flight 01-057

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Track #12
Southeastern Texas
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm