2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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additional fuel bladders to the center wing section to increase range and endurance. Anticipated missions in the next year include an airborne ecological assessment of the island of Yap (Federated States of Micronesia), in partnership with the USFS, and ice roughness measurements of Arctic sea ice based from Svalbard Norway, in support of a NASA-funded UAV-IPY project. In preparation for this activity, the team plans cold weather operations testing in California, Utah, or North Dakota. 86
ESTO Technology Demonstrations In 2008, the Airborne Science program has teamed with several investigators funded by the Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) to develop instrument technologies through demonstration flights on ASP platforms. These flights include a variety of science instruments including RADARs, LIDARs, optical instruments and passive microwave experiments. By demonstrating these instruments can operate in an aircraft environement, increased technology readiness levels can be demonstrated, bringing the development one step closer to being mission ready. Since airborne experiments must be compact, rugged and semi-autonomous, this forces the instrument teams to develop technologies also needed for the rigors of space operation. Airborne instruments also supply data that can be used to design the operating parameters of space instruments. They are a vital link in the development of spacebased instruments by providing actual measurements of real-world phenomena. This understanding enables space instruments to be properly designed and to optimize data collection parameters. Airborne demonstration instruments also have evolved through the Airborne Instrument Technology Transfer (AITT) program and other initiatives to the point where they provide calibrated science data used for developing science algorithms and calibration of on-orbit instrument data. Some of the more significant demonstration flights conducted this past year include: GIFS GIFS (Geostationary Imaging Fabry- Perot Spectrometer) is a tunable tripleetalon Fabry-Perot Imaging Spectrometer developed for cloud characteristics and surface pressure imaging onboard geostationary satellites. An engineering flight conducted in January successfully demonstrated the GIFS prototype engineering performance and its spectral scanning technique on the NASA P-3. CO 2 Sounder The NASA Goddard CO 2 Sounder team successfully conducted airborne engineering tests of their CO 2 Laser Sounder instrument in October by making airborne 87
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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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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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