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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 04-606
Date: 17 October 2003
Location: Western USA / Pacific Ocean (night)
Deployment: GLAS
Principal Investigators: Dr. Jim Spinhirne (GSFC)
Additional Sensors: CPL, MASTER, VIS
Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good;
Thermal channels faded near end of flight due to loss of liquid nitrogen (LN2)
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table
Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 20
Scanlines: 108591
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 23:03 - 23:13 316.8 37.673 - 38.479 118.697 - 119.621 3792 19736
2 23:14 - 23:17 308.2 38.497 - 38.671 119.644 - 119.963 1081 20076
3 23:17 - 23:22 359.0 38.740 - 39.286 120.007 - 119.999 1860 20055
4 23:25 - 23:46 216.1 39.337 - 37.401 120.246 - 121.923 8058 19971
5 23:49 - 00:04 93.1 37.225 - 37.103 121.807 - 119.585 5797 19974
6 00:07 - 00:16 259.1 36.884 - 36.714 119.569 - 120.788 3426 19895
7 00:19 - 00:33 111.2 36.515 - 35.908 120.807 - 119.013 5163 19945
8 00:35 - 00:48 252.0 35.718 - 35.275 119.005 - 120.678 4875 19923
9 00:49 - 00:59 312.7 35.326 - 36.038 120.852 - 121.810 3619 19904
10 01:00 - 01:09 359.0 36.139 - 37.085 121.855 - 121.852 3203 19917
11 01:09 - 01:35 349.0 37.104 - 39.984 121.854 - 122.471 9999 19879
12 01:35 - 01:48 347.7 39.984 - 41.381 122.471 - 122.791 4847 19942
13 01:51 - 02:17 129.9 41.460 - 39.468 122.564 - 119.376 9999 19967
14 02:17 - 02:29 129.6 39.467 - 38.564 119.375 - 118.031 4486 20055
15 02:33 - 02:45 96.1 38.485 - 38.351 117.639 - 115.824 4714 19929
16 02:45 - 02:48 96.5 38.349 - 38.306 115.811 - 115.478 887 19983
17 02:52 - 03:19 351.3 38.326 - 41.167 115.046 - 115.572 9999 19915
18 03:19 - 03:32 350.8 41.167 - 42.570 115.572 - 115.843 4849 19932
19 03:34 - 04:01 202.6 42.578 - 39.718 116.144 - 117.410 9999 19960
20 04:01 - 04:22 199.8 39.717 - 37.409 117.410 - 118.355 7938 19930
Images 01 through 20 in sequence
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Flight 04-606

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Sample Imagery
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Track #17
California / Nevada
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R: 10.51µm
G: 8.54µm
B: 4.54µm