2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
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Figure 45<br />
B-200 aircraft trajectory derived from the POS/AV system (Jornada/Sevillita,<br />
NM MASTER flight, 10/22/08).<br />
Imager (OCI) spectrometer module is<br />
scheduled to be completed in 2009.<br />
POS/AV (Aircraft Position/Orientation System)<br />
These precision, stand-alone navigation and<br />
attitude measurement systems are used<br />
to support the MASTER and AMS facility<br />
instruments, as well other new sensors being<br />
developed by the agency under the ESTO<br />
instrument incubator program. One POS<br />
system was integrated with the new MFLL<br />
(Multi-functional Fiber Laser Lidar) ice-sheet<br />
mapping system from ITT Corporation,<br />
and flown on a commercial B-200 aircraft.<br />
Another system was installed on the Glenn<br />
Research Center Learjet to support test<br />
flights of the new Swath Imaging Multipolarization<br />
Photon-counting Lidar (SIMPL)<br />
from the Goddard Space Flight Center.<br />
Other <strong>Program</strong> Support Activities<br />
Flight planning services for the JPL AVIRIS<br />
<strong>2008</strong> Twin Otter flight requests were<br />
provided, with over 50 site plans being<br />
developed for that commercial catalog<br />
aircraft. Flight Readiness Reviews for those,<br />
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