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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 99-053
Date: 20 March 1999
Location: Illinois / Wisconsin / Minnesota / Canada
Deployment: WINTEX
Principal Investigator: Moeller (UWisc)
Additional Sensors: NAST-I, NAST-M, Dual RC-10 (6" / 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
Spectral Response Function Table
Browse Imagery
Flight Tracks: 8
Scanlines: 35574
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 23:26-23:52 317 52.45-54.58 98.65-102.06 9789 ~20000
2 00:02-00:17 133 53.96-52.68 101.07-99.00 5705 ~20000
3 00:17-00:32 136 52.68-51.35 99.00-97.05 5705 ~20000
4 00:33-00:46 138 51.34-50.17 97.04-95.44 4870 ~20000
5 00:46-00:59 139 50.17-49.00 95.43-93.93 4871 ~20000
6 01:42-01:45 156 44.53-44.23 90.39-90.19 1060 ~20000
7 01:53-01:57 156 43.97-42.95 90.00-89.34 1692 ~20000
8 02:10-02:15 271 43.07-43.07 87.92-89.60 1882 ~20000
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Objective and Summary:

Take-off was at 2100 UTC. ER-2 landed at 0300 UTC (99080).

ER-2 spiraled up from Truax and flew to near ORD where it picked up northwestward track taking it over SSEC (3:44pm CST; 2144 UTC) and up to INL. MSN had mid and high scattered clouds. En route to INL, ER-2 crossed cold front in Western WI and then overflew low cloud deck behind cold front. Past INL, ER-2 flew to 50nm past radiosonde number 71867. In S. Canada, the low cloud deck ended and clear skies were encountered followed by scattered thin high cloud near L. Winnipeg. ER-2 then reversed course, flying entire route back to Madison on same line, but in darkness. Low cloud overcast in MN arrowhead and N WI. MSN sky conditions mostly clear with few scattered clouds on ER-2 overpasses at end of flight (0156 UTC on SE heading and 0213 UTC on west heading). Surface is bare ground from MSP down to MSN. No classondes at AERIbago due to hardware failure.

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Flight 99-053

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Sample Imagery
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Track #2
Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba, CAN
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm