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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 99-018
Date: 11 December 1998
Location: Southern California
Deployment: DFRC December 1998
Principal Investigator: Conel (JPL)
Additional Sensors: AirMISR, RC-10 (12" CIR)

Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
During the Dec 98 DFRC flights of the MAS instrument, channels 49 and 50 where accidentally transposed. This problem was not discovered until after the MAS instrument was returned to the Ames Research Center in early March, 1999 from TRMM-LBA deployment in Brazil. Therefore, bands are out of order, but the correct calilbration files have been applied. In essence, data users will see "channel 50 data" in the channel 49 position, and visa versa.

Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
Spectral Response Function Table

Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 14
Scanlines: 48512

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 19:24-19:41 173 36.09-34.22 118.08-117.67 6503 ~20000
2 19:46-19:48 353 34.17-34.35 117.67-117.70 567 ~20000
3 19:48-20:00 351 34.36-35.78 117.70-118.01 4638 ~20000
4 20:06-20:20 171 35.75-34.27 118.00-117.68 5259 ~20000
5 20:25-20:31 350 34.19-34.84 117.67-117.80 2120 ~20000
6 20:31-20:39 350 34.85-35.78 117.81-118.01 3074 ~20000
7 20:42-20:57 171 35.81-34.26 118.02-117.68 5535 ~20000
8 21:01-21:22 350 34.17-36.51 117.66-118.17 7606 ~20000
9 21:22-21:26 356 36.57-36.97 118.17-118.21 1309 ~20000
10 21:28-21:35 172 36.97-36.28 118.01-117.85 2425 ~20000
11 21:35-21:36 180 36.26-36.11 117.85-117.85 517 ~20000
12 21:37-21:43 195 35.99-35.44 117.88-118.07 1996 ~20000
13 21:43-21:47 186 35.42-34.94 118.07-118.13 1640 ~20000
14 21:49-22:03 354 34.99-36.61 118.25-118.45 5323 ~20000
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Flight 99-018

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Sample Imagery
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Track #4
Antelope Valley, CA
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm