2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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Wallops, VA Campaign Cleveland, OH Demo Flight Wallops, VA Demo Flight Greenland Campaign base Geostationary Imaging Fabry–Perot Spectrometer/Yee Laser Sounder for Global Measurements of CO 2 /Abshire Multi-functional Fiber Laser Lidar (MFLL) for Ice Sheet Topographic Mapping/Dobbs Glaciers and Ice Sheet Interferometric Radar (GISIR)/Jezek Figure 37 ESTO Supported Instruments, Aircraft, and Sample Data. measurements in the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio on the NASA Glenn Learjet 25. The CO 2 Sounder is a technology development effort to develop an instrument to enable high accuracy (< 1 ppm) global maps of CO 2 mixing ratios in lower troposphere, as needed by the ASCENDS mission. GISIR The purpose of the Global Ice Sheet Interferometric Radar (GISIR) is to develop and test radars (150 Mhz & 450 MHz) and algorithms for imaging the base of the polar ice sheets, and to develop 3-D topography of the glacial bed. Flights were conducted in the Fall of 2007 and Summer of 2008 over Greenland using both the P-3 and Twin Otter to make 3-D topographic representations of the basal properties of Greenland using both interferometric and tomographic SAR techniques. Multi-functional Fiber Laser Lidar (MFLL) for Ice Sheet Topographic Mapping The MFLL implementation is a multifunctional system capable of topographic ranging, aerosol/clouds sensing, and atmospheric profiling that promises a roughly factor of ten reduction in size, mass, power, cost, and development risk over existing approaches. The MFLL was tested over Wallops, Virginia using the NASA B-200 aircraft. A total of approximately 50 flight hours were flown in FY08 in support of ESTO technology demonstrations. 88
Mission Planning Tools REAL TIME MISSION MONITOR System Overview The Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM) is a situational awareness tool that integrates and displays satellite, airborne and surface data sets including geostationary imagery, passive microwave products, radar, sondes, lightning, current weather information, modeled forecast outputs, and vehicle state data (e.g., aircraft navigation, satellite tracks and instrument field-of-views) during airborne science missions. RTMM optimizes science and logistic decision-making during airborne missions and field experiments by presenting timely data and graphics to the users to improve real time situational awareness of NASA’s mission assets. Figure 38 RTMM composite showing (a) zoom in on DC-8 flight track, (b) coincident DIAL curtain viewer depicting clouds and aerosol layers, (c) DC-8 track overlaid on GOES visible with lightning strikes in yellow during an ARCTAS Summer flight on July 6, 2008. 89
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary
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LIST OF FIGURES Fig. # Caption Page
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Fig. # Caption Page # 37 ESTO Suppo
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CONTRIBUTORS The contribution of th
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programs to train teachers in remot
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NOAA and a DOE aircraft, and aircra
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SCIENCE MISSIONS &
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ARCTAS Science Focus: Atmospheric C
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Figure 4 DC-8 Arrival in Thule, Gre
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sample downwind evolution of Canadi
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Figure 7 ACCLAIM instrument on the
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configurations and interfaces. SIMP
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Figure 8 2008 UAS proposed operatio
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Figure 10 The Oden Research Vessel
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California Fire Emergency Response
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Figure 13 AMS-Wildfire sensor data,
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Southern California Post Fire Evalu
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CALIPSO: Caribbean Validation Missi
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Cold Land Processes Science Focus:
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Science Focus: Astromaterials Spons
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ESA ATV Reentry Science Focus: Atmo
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Page 129: APPENDICES In Memoriam Airborne Pro
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REVEAL RFI RPI RSD RSP RTMM RVSM Re
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