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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 03-912
Date: 19 November 2002
Location: California to Texas
Deployment: TX-2002
Principal Investigators: Drs. Paul Menzel & Chris Moeller (UWISC)
Additional Sensors: CPL, MVIS, NAST-I, RC-10 (dual), VIS
Data Evaluation
MAS port #1 (bands 1-9, 0.44-0.97µm) was not operational;
Cause of the problem was traced to a broken wire in a pin connector.
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table
Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 6
Scanlines: 37611
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 18:32 - 18:59 111.8 34.607 - 33.456 113.977 - 110.580 9999 19950
2 18:59 - 19:26 113.6 33.456 - 32.220 110.579 - 107.295 9999 19887
3 19:26 - 19:34 115.2 32.220 - 31.829 107.294 - 106.318 2986 19900
4 19:34 - 19:58 109.2 31.823 - 31.013 106.301 - 103.183 9106 19921
5 19:58 - 20:04 104.7 31.013 - 30.813 103.182 - 102.417 2219 19969
6 20:04 - 20:13 108.6 30.808 - 30.500 102.394 - 101.257 3302 19954
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Flight Summary Report

Mission Objectives

Test MAS, NAST-I, CPL instruments and get ER-2 aircraft to San Antonio in readiness for TX-2002.

Flight Summary

Take-off was at 1800 UTC.  ER-2 landed at 2110 UTC.

ER-2 flew from Dryden where skis were cloudy through AZ and NM into TX with mostly clear skies the whole way.

Highlights

The ER-2 made it to San Antonio on schedule. Clear skies along entire route

Instrument Status
  • Modis Airborne Simulator (MAS): Operated. Port 1 failure.
  • NPOESS Atmospheric Sounder Testbed (NAST-I): Operated. Good data.
  • Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL): Operated. Data system failure.
  • Scanner High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder (SHIS): Not on plane.
  • VIS video camera: Operated.  Good video collected.
  • M/VIS mini video camera: Operated.  Good video collected.
  • RC-10 Camera: Not operated..
Additional Pilot Notes

Aircraft is healthy.   Some difficulty with ATC on descent.

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Flight 03-912

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Track #02
Arizona
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R: 11.00µm
G: 2.13µm
B: 1.62µm