2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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Common Data & Communications Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Science Instrumentation, Facilities, & Support Systems ASTL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 DAOF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Media, Education, & Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Recognition & Awards. . . . . . . 112 Looking Ahead to FY09 and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Appendices In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Airborne Program History. . . . . . . 121 Five-Year Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Acronyms & Abbreviations. . . . . . . 133 vi
LIST OF FIGURES Fig. # Caption Page # 1 DC-8 ARCTAS Project Team in Fairbanks, AK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 NASA Langley team based from Barrow, Alaska, including HSRL science and B-200 flight operations personnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 Group photo of P-3 instrument, forecasting, mission science, and ARCTAS management teams, Cold Lake, Alberta, July 2008. . . . . 10 4 DC-8 arrival in Thule, Greenland, April 4, 2008. The DC-8 remained in Thule overnight and returned to Fairbanks the following day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5 Dr. Henry Fuelberg of Florida State University presents the daily weather brief from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. . . . . . . 12 6 NOAA P-3, NASA P-3, and NASA DC-8 is a panoramic image at the Fairbanks International Airport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7 ACCLAIM instrument on the Lear-25 as it flew in October 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 8 2008 UAS proposed operations area (Atlantic Ocean east of Barbados). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 9 UAS flight path (black/wind barbs) and storm track (blue) into Hurricane Noel on November 2, 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 10 The Oden Research Vessel taken from the NASA DC-8 during an AMISA mission flight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 11 The NASA Ikhana UAS, containing the AMS-Wildfire sensor system that flew emergency support missions over the 2008 Northern California firestorm areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 12 The NASA Ikhana UAV shown with the AMS-Wildfire sensor pod located under the wing during mission operations in early FY2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 13 AMS-Wildfire sensor data, collected from the NASA Ikhana UAS over the Basin Fire near Big Sur California on July 8, 2008. 25 vii
Page 2 and 3: On the cover: In the foreground are
Page 5: TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary
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Page 11: CONTRIBUTORS The contribution of th
Page 14 and 15: programs to train teachers in remot
Page 16 and 17: NOAA and a DOE aircraft, and aircra
Page 18 and 19: SCIENCE MISSIONS &
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Page 25 and 26: sample downwind evolution of Canadi
Page 27 and 28: Figure 7 ACCLAIM instrument on the
Page 29 and 30: configurations and interfaces. SIMP
Page 31 and 32: Figure 8 2008 UAS proposed operatio
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Page 41 and 42: CALIPSO: Caribbean Validation Missi
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Page 45 and 46: Science Focus: Astromaterials Spons
Page 47 and 48: ESA ATV Reentry Science Focus: Atmo
Page 49 and 50: SOGASEX Science Focus: Carbon Cycle
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Page 55: PROGRAM ELEMENTS: & SCIENCE REQUIRE
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s Figure 26 Airborne Science Progra
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Science & Requirements The Science
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Flight Requests The 2008 calendar y
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Collaborations and Partnerships The
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Interagency UAS Coordination As the
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Interagency Working Group for Airbo
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AIRBORNE SCIENCE
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NASA DC-8 In November 2007, the NAS
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NASA ER-2 NASA operates two ER- 2 (
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NASA WB-57 Fiscal Year 2008 saw muc
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NASA P-3 The P-3B Orion is based at
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NASA G-3 During FY 2008, the DFRC G
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Aerosonde The Aerosonde Mark 3 airc
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limited to 28,000 ft in the Nationa
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Twin Otter Twin Otter International
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PROGRAM ELEMENTS: & NEW TECHNOLOGIE
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ground control station, and is resp
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variety of atmospheric and remote s
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Figure 35 Flight Envelope with cont
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additional fuel bladders to the cen
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Wallops, VA Campaign Cleveland, OH
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RTMM is web-accessible, password pr
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B-200 High Spectral Resolution Lida
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Non-Deployment Teams Field Deployme
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AIRBORNE SCIENCE
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Airborne Sensor Technology Lab This
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Figure 43 Taken Oct. 4, 2007, 2-met
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Figure 45 B-200 aircraft trajectory
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Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility
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Media, Education & Outreach NASA Ea
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Figure 48 ARCTAS press article samp
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in Panama City in July and August,
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outside of NASA. This past year, NA
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APPENDICES In Memoriam Airborne Pro
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also helped pioneer the use of loca
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The Founding and Early History of t
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where you couldn’t find them, and
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Figure 52 Early remote sensing payl
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This aircraft was designated NASA 9
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Personnel from both countries were
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APPENDIX D Acronyms & Abbreviations
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REVEAL RFI RPI RSD RSP RTMM RVSM Re
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