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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 03-913
Date: 21 November 2002
Location: Texas / Gulf of Mexico
Deployment: TX-2002
Principal Investigators: Drs. Paul Menzel & Chris Moeller (UWISC)
Additional Sensors: CPL, MVIS, NAST-I, RC-10 (dual), SHIS, VIS
Data Evaluation
Port 3 has some Line-to-Line Noise.
Port 4 has some Coherent Noise
AQUA Underflight @19:40
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: 27353
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 18:31 - 18:35 113.0 29.069 - 28.883 96.956 - 96.442 1586 18248
2 18:36 - 18:59 169.3 28.791 - 26.242 96.357 - 95.911 8621 19570
3 19:04 - 19:13 349.5 26.403 - 27.409 95.991 - 96.234 3399 19997
4 19:16 - 19:26 168.0 27.455 - 26.334 96.031 - 95.738 3876 20000
5 19:29 - 19:52 349.4 26.280 - 28.809 95.957 - 96.585 8605 19778
6 19:54 - 19:58 213.7 28.850 - 28.527 96.818 - 97.034 1266 19609
Images 01 through 06 in sequence
Flight Summary Report

Mission Objectives

Checkout mission for S-HIS; Aqua underflight for L1B assessment; CPL depolarization calibration flight.

Flight Summary

Take-off was at 1813 UTC.  ER-2 landed at 2050 UTC.

ER-2 launched about 15 minutes late for ATC. Pilot reported that CPL was fail on the apron so it was turned off for the entire mission as per plan. ER-2 flew from SAT to TX coast to fly south to began a racetrack with legs aligned with Aqua orbital track (347.5 true heading). Legs are about 10 minutes long. Started at SW corner flying northward on western leg (on Aqua orbital track), then flew southward leg (offset 12 NM to the east). Skies clear on both eastern legs. ER-2 then turned back to north for 2nd run of western leg, meeting Aqua at 1940 UTC at about midpoint of the line. Continued on this heading to TX coast crossing at oblique angle for S-HIS and NAST-I vector pointing studies.

Good mission for L1B assessment and S-HIS/NAST-I comparisons.

Highlights

Clear sky scenes of deepwater GOM with Aqua directly overhead.

Instrument Status
  • Modis Airborne Simulator (MAS): Operated. Good data.
  • NPOESS Atmospheric Sounder Testbed (NAST-I): Operated. Good data.
  • Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL): Operated. Data system failure.
  • Scanner High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS): Operated. Good data.
  • VIS video camera: Operated.  Good video collected.
  • M/VIS mini video camera: Operated.  Good video collected.
  • RC-10 Camera: Tested.
Additional Pilot Notes

Gulf of Mexico appeared to contain white caps.

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Flight 03-913

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Sample Imagery
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Track #02
Texas / Gulf of Mexico
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R: 11.00µm
G: 1.64µm
B: 0.55µm
Track #05
Texas / Gulf of Mexico
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R: 2.15µm
G: 1.64µm
B: 0.55µm