2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
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Other <strong>Program</strong> Support Activities<br />
The ASF manages a sub-contract with Twin Otter<br />
International, Inc., which conducts flights with a<br />
variety of <strong>NASA</strong> remote sensing systems. The<br />
activities this year primarily involved the JPL Passive/<br />
Active L-/S-band microwave instrument (PALS) and<br />
the POLSCAT polarimetric Ku-band scatterometer.<br />
Data mining and distribution of precursor HyspIRI<br />
data sets, consisting of coincident MASTER,<br />
AVIRIS, and HyMap archival data sets, is ongoing<br />
together with JPL. AVIRIS and MASTER are slated<br />
to be flown together on the ER-2 over selected sites<br />
for HyspIRI algorithm development over the next<br />
several years.<br />
The facility is also responsible for maintaining the<br />
websites for the <strong>Airborne</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>Program</strong>, and the<br />
MAS, MASTER, and AMS sensors. It also provides<br />
graphical support to the program for conference<br />
materials and education and outreach activities.<br />
Figure 62:<br />
A merged data set of HyMap and MASTER over Limon, Costa<br />
Rica. Acquired on 3/27/05, it covers a spectral region from 460nm<br />
to 13.0μm, and is being used as a precursor data set for the new<br />
HyspIRI satellite program.<br />
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