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FLIGHT SUMMARY INFORMATION

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Flight: 99-054
Date: 21 March 1999
Location: Lake Michigan / Wisconsin
Deployment: WINTEX
Principal Investigator: Moeller (UWisc)
Additional Sensors: NAST-I, NAST-M, 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: 10
Scanlines: 59079
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)
Flight
Track		 Time_Span
(GMT)		 Heading
(Deg)		 Lat_Range
(Deg_N)		 Lon_Range
(Deg_W)		 Length
(Scanlines)		 ~20000
1 22:25-22:41 63 44.76-45.48 87.40-85.16 5729 ~20000
2 22:45-23:02 223 45.19-43.68 85.22-86.99 6455 ~20000
3 23:04-23:11 238 43.56-43.13 87.25-88.09 2433 ~20000
4 23:12-23:32 323 43.13-44.86 88.30-90.13 7394 ~20000
5 23:32-23:48 323 44.85-46.21 90.13-91.67 5934 ~20000
6 00:29-00:39 322 43.11-43.94 88.28-89.15 3582 ~20000
7 00:39-01:06 324 43.95-46.22 89.14-91.67 9912 ~20000
8 01:10-01:26 141 46.38-44.85 91.33-89.61 6193 ~20000
9 01:26-01:43 142 44.85-43.30 89.61-87.98 6201 ~20000
10 01:46-02:00 272 43.08-43.07 88.16-90.32 5246 ~20000
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Objective and Summary:

Take-off was at 2200 UTC. ER-2 landed at 0245 UTC (99081).

ER-2 spiraled up from Truax and flew to GRB, where it flew eastward at altitude to Cheboygan, MI and picked up a southwestward track taking it along eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Some snow showers present along shoreline at that time, most intense near Traverse City (2300 UTC). Only low cloud, bkn at times. Sky light level is low (23 UTC), emulating night conditions. Racetrack pattern (western leg coordinates are 43:06, 88:17 to 46:13, 91:41; eastern leg is offset by 30km) traveled twice around, with mostly clear conditions (few cu in SE WI). Traversed mid tropospheric dry slot oriented N-S down centerline of WI. Racetrack is oriented with upper level winds as planned. NAST-I failed near end of first line of racetrack. Mission finished by overflying MSN in clear conditions at about 0215 UTC. HSRL and AERI operated throughout the flight. Surface is bare ground over most of WI. No classondes at AERIbago due to hardware failure.

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Flight 99-054

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Track #1
Lake Michigan
(WI / MI)
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R: 2.13µm
G: 1.62µm
B: 0.55µm