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MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS)

FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 97-140
Date: 17 August 1997
Location: Virginia / New England / Atlantic Ocean
Deployment: Wallops August 1997
Principal Investigator: Spinhirne (GSFC) / Johnson (ARC)
Additional Sensors: AVIRIS, CLS, RC-10 (12" CIR)
Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
Track 1 smeared in sections because aircraft is climbing
Channels 43 and 44 show excessive noise in data throughout flight
Port 4 channels have noise in middle tracks
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table
Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 16
Scanlines: 42801
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 16:49-16:53 254 36.82-36.72 76.55-77.01 1323 Climbing
2 16:56-16:59 70 36.47-36.58 76.93-76.56 1072 ~20000
3 16:59-17:01 59 36.61-36.70 76.50-76.33 591 ~20000
4 17:03-17:07 327 36.91-37.31 76.31-76.62 1526 ~20000
5 17:12-17:16 147 37.46-37.07 76.60-76.31 1570 ~20000
6 17:16-17:18 162 37.03-36.84 76.29-76.22 673 ~20000
7 17:21-17:26 6 36.87-37.42 75.99-75.94 1802 ~20000
8 17:26-17:30 338 37.48-37.90 75.95-76.17 1489 ~20000
9 17:30-17:42 340 37.91-39.17 76.18-76.78 4399 ~20000
10 17:42-18:03 340 39.19-41.39 76.78-77.90 7732 ~20000
11 18:11-18:15 343 41.45-41.90 78.05-78.25 1565 ~20000
12 18:15-18:17 344 41.92-42.13 78.26-78.34 723 ~20000
13 18:17-18:23 347 42.13-42.78 78.34-78.53 2130 ~20000
14 18:26-18:36 134 42.76-41.99 78.27-77.19 3688 ~20000
15 18:36-18:52 135 41.99-40.65 77.19-75.43 6265 ~20000
16 18:52-19:09 137 40.65-39.28 75.43-73.73 6253 ~20000
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Flight 97-140

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Sample Imagery
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Track #7
Eastern Shore, VA
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.63µm
B: 0.55µm