2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

AVIRIS
Science Focus:
HQ Sponsor:
PI:
Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Science
Wickland
Green
From February 27 through August 31, 2009,
a total of 26 AVIRIS science flights were
conducted on the ER-2 totaling 89.9 flight hours.
It included a deployment to Wright-Patterson
AFB, Dayton, OH, for the months of June and
July. NASA sponsors included Diane Wickland
and Andrew Roberts. Experiment sites included
areas in central and southern California, New
York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Minnesota, Montana and South Dakota. AVIRIS
data was also collected over experiment sites in
Alberta and Ontario, Canada.
The series of AVIRIS flights were initiated with
an in-flight spectral, radiometric, spatial, and
uniformity calibration and characteristics of
the AVIRIS imaging spectrometer. The science
data gathered over experiment sites included
the following: The characterization of forest
functional types and their role in mediating
ecosystem response to environmental change;
Carbon cycling, vegetation nitrogen status and
surface albedo.
Science data gathering was successfully completed
by the ER-2 team over all requested experiment
sites.
Scientists included Philip Dennison, Dar Roberts,
Scott Ollinger and Phil Townsend. The AVIRIS
instrument manager was Michael Eastwood.
For more information, visit: http//aviris.jpl.nasa.
gov/
Figure 4:
Lunar Lake, NV Calibration site measured by
AVIRIS from 65,000 feet on August 19, 2009.
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