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MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS)

FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 98-031
Date: 9 March 1998
Location: Channel Islands / Santa Barbara Channel, CA
Deployment: DFRC March 1998
Principal Investigator: Functional Check Flight
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Data Evaluation
Overall quality is fair
Early pressure blowoffs, resulting in voltage transients (stabilized later in flight)
Radio noise and brush noise (200 Hz noise) noted midflight
The analog offset of channel 48 is fixed at 1024
Significant horizontal banding in upper Port 4 channels
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: 11406
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 20:20-20:28 185 34.38-33.37 119.83-119.89 3292 ~20000
2 20:31-20:34 354 33.37-33.63 120.18-120.22 899 ~20000
3 20:35-20:38 274 33.74-33.76 120.35-120.75 1086 ~20000
4 20:41-20:49 57 33.96-34.46 120.82-119.88 3132 ~20000
5 20:54-20:57 205 34.49-34.15 120.18-120.35 1211 ~20000
6 21:00-21:05 27 34.04-34.51 120.09-119.77 1786 ~20000
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Flight 98-031

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Sample Imagery
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Track #1
Santa Cruz Island, CA
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm