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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 99-043
Date: 17 February 1999
Location: Rondonia, Brazil
Deployment: TRMM-LBA
Principal Investigator: Guillory (MSFC)
Additional Sensors: AMPR, EDOP, LIP, MIR, VIS
Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
Channels 49 and 50 have been swapped.
Severe GPS navigation drop-outs throughout RS232 data.
Both blackbodies left in preflight mode. Flight temps: BB1 +17.08 C / BB2 +37.63 C.
System fail light (L1) noted by pilot 2 hours 44 minutes into flight data acquition. Pilot cycled L1 power twice, then cycled left wing power. This caused the tape drive to rewind to the beginning of the data tape. All data recorded prior to cycling of L1 power was overwritten.
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: 14631
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 20:37-20:45 109 11.47-11.77 62.50-61.75 2892 ~20000
2 20:45-20:47 84 11.78-11.77 61.70-61.55 555 ~20000
3 20:47-21:13 80 11.77-11.40 61.52-58.91 9577 ~20000
4 21:13-21:18 102 11.41-11.52 58.84-58.41 1607 ~20000
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Flight 99-043

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Sample Imagery
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Track #4
Rondonia, Brazil
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm