CAMPAIGN SUMMARY INFORMATION

GEMx Late Summer / Early Fall 2023 Dates: August 28 - September 26, 2023 Location: California / Arizona / Nevada Principal Investigators: Kokaly (USGS) Aircraft: NASA 806 ER-2 (Armstrong Flight Research Center) Additional Sensors: AVIRIS Objective: The Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx) research project will use NASA's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES), and MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instruments flown on NASA's ER-2 and Gulfstream V aircraft to collect the measurements over the country's arid and semi-arid regions, including parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Processing Information Flights Processed: 11 Total Flight Tracks: 102 Total Scanlines: 604,649 Status: Level-1B processing complete
MASTER Spectral Information Spectral Band Configuration Spectral Response Function Table
Related Web Sites GEMx / Earth MRI Campaign Mission List GEMX Press Release USGS Earth MRI EOS Project Science Office NASA Airborne Science Program Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS)
GEMx Late Summer / Early Fall 2023 Missions Click on a Track Map to view a particular mission 28 Aug 2023 Flight: 23-909-00 05 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-910-00 11 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-911-00 12 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-912-00 14 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-913-00 15 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-914-00 18 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-915-00 19 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-916-00 20 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-917-00 25 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-918-00 26 Sep 2023 Flight: 23-919-00

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