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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 99-051
Date: 18 March 1999
Location: Southern Wisconsin / Lake Michigan
Deployment: WINTEX
Principal Investigator: Moeller (UWisc)
Additional Sensors: NAST-I, NAST-M, RC-10 (12" BW), SHIS, VIS
Data Evaluation
Overall quality is good
Processing Information
Level-1B Data in HDF format is available
Flight Line Summary
Spectral Band Configuration
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Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 8
Scanlines: 40624
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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 19:25-19:32 142 43.91-43.28 87.61-86.90 2540 ~20000
2 19:35-19:52 273 43.08-43.08 87.07-89.64 6390 ~20000
3 19:56-20:13 89 42.79-42.79 89.63-87.00 6273 ~20000
4 20:17-20:32 274 43.07-43.08 87.00-89.29 5689 ~20000
5 20:32-20:34 271 43.07-43.07 89.30-89.66 910 ~20000
6 20:38-20:55 89 42.79-42.79 89.64-87.01 6254 ~20000
7 20:59-21:17 273 43.08-43.08 87.03-89.62 6540 ~20000
8 21:21-21:37 88 42.79-42.79 89.57-87.03 6028 ~20000
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Objective and Summary:

Take-off was at 1900 UTC. ER-2 landed at 2215 UTC.

ER-2 flew climbed out from Madison towards northeast (GRB) and turned back over Lake Michigan to transit to east end of racetrack. Started racetrack pattern on northern leg and did 3 complete orbits and went into descent into Madison. Skies were mostly clear with few cu around. Three overpass times of SSEC were at about 1950, 2035 and 2117 UTC with heading 270. Flight also overflew Milwaukee on the northern flight line.
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Flight 99-051

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Track #8
Southern Wisconsin
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm