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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 03-914
Date: 22 November 2002
Location: Texas / Oklahoma / Kansas
Deployment: TX-2002
Principal Investigators: Drs. Paul Menzel & Chris Moeller (UWISC)
Additional Sensors: CPL, MVIS, NAST-I, RC-10 (dual), SHIS, VIS
Data Evaluation
Ports 2 & 3 have some Line-to-Line Noise.
Port 4 has some Coherent Noise (strongest to date), most visable in Bands 42-46.
TERRA Underflight @17:14
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table
Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 4
Scanlines: 34019
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 16:39 - 17:06 13.4 32.909 - 35.879 98.478 - 97.685 9999 20036
2 17:06 - 17:20 13.3 35.880 - 37.512 97.685 - 97.219 5525 19924
3 17:23 - 17:50 193.1 37.468 - 34.578 96.970 - 97.783 10001 19942
4 17:50 - 18:13 193.8 34.578 - 32.101 97.783 - 98.450 8494 19885
Images 01 through 04 in sequence
Flight Summary Report

Mission Objectives

S-HIS/NAST-I calibration comparison with ARM SGP characterization (Terra overpass at 1714 UTC). Map surface features at CF. CPL depolarization calibration flight.

Flight Summary

Take-off was at 1600 UTC.  ER-2 landed at 1905 UTC.

ER-2 flew from SAT northward to OK, picking up on the Terra orbital track parallel line (offset from nadir to fly over CF) in N. TX at 1633 UTC and continued on that line up to ARM SGP. Clear skies on entire line. Met Terra overpass with ER-2 about 10 km north of the CF. Flew another 8 minutes to the north observing isolated sub visual cirrus (171854-171949 UTC), then turned to return on opposite heading offset by 20 km to the east of CF line. Flew back to TX on this line. Skies clear along this entire line.

Highlights

Clear sky over ARM SGP CF with co-incident Terra (22 deg off-nadir view). Isolated sub-visual cirrus at 1719 UTC in MAS 1.88um.

Instrument Status
  • Modis Airborne Simulator (MAS): Operated. Good data.
  • NPOESS Atmospheric Sounder Testbed (NAST-I): Operated. Low signal in all bands.
  • Cloud Physics Lidar (CPL): Operated. Data system failure.
  • Scanner High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder (SHIS): Good data.
  • VIS video camera: Operated.  Good video collected.
  • M/VIS mini video camera: Operated.  Good video collected.
  • RC-10 Cameras: Operated 12" (false color IR) and 6" (b/w) cameras over ARM SGF line for 8 minutes.
Additional Pilot Notes

Pilot observed clear during entire flight.

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Flight 03-914

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Track #02
Oklahoma SGP Site
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R: 2.15µm
G: 1.64µm
B: 0.55µm