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Flight #99-074

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21 May 1999

Track 04



R: 2.13 microns
G: 1.61 microns
B: 0.55 microns

This westbound filghtline begins west of West Palm Beach, Florida. It then crosses highway 98 and the West Palm Beach canal. Next it passes over the southern end of Lake Okeechobee and ends over Whidden Corner.

Mission Summary
Date: May 21, 1999
ER-2 Flight Number: 99-074
Deployment: Patrick, May 99
Flight Location: Lake Okeechobee, West Florida Shelf
Principal Investigator: Dr. K. Carder (Univ. So. Florida), Dr. C. Davis (NRL)
Additional Sensors: 12" RC-10 (CIR)
Objective: MAS / AVIRIS cross comparison. Improved understanding of the dynamics of the optical properties of the coastal ocean; and the physical and biogeochemical processes controlling those properties (Davis).

Level-1B Processing Information
Level-1B Data processed by: Ames Research Center
Level-1B Data Version: #01
Level-1B Configuration: (sample file)
Calibration Type: Final
Calibration Version: 1.0
Temperature Adjustment: No
Status: Completed with final calibration.

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Straight Line Flight Tracks: 10
Scanlines Processed: 20072
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Lat/Lon ranges are for the BEG-END scanline nadir pixels.
Flight
Track
Time_Span
(GMT)
Heading
(Deg)
Lat_Range
(Deg_N)
Lon_Range
(Deg_W)
Length
(Scanlines)
01 13:26-13:28 154 27.82-27.61 79.69-79.56 790
02 13:29-13:32 216 27.48-27.26 79.57-79.74 896
03 13:33-13:36 215 27.19-26.86 79.79-80.04 1301
04 13:37-13:46 272 26.81-26.82 80.16-81.25 3173
05 13:53-14:02 90 26.99-26.98 81.60-80.49 3436
06 14:08-14:16 275 26.89-26.90 80.27-81.24 2814
07 14:17-14:19 305 26.93-27.06 81.35-81.57 765
08 14:19-14:22 306 27.06-27.27 81.57-81.95 1314
09 14:23-14:32 273 27.30-27.30 82.04-83.26 3467
10 14:36-14:41 88 27.53-27.53 83.28-82.60 2116
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Data Evalutation
MAS performed extremely well during the Patrick 99 deployment. No problems were noted in the data from this flight.

Spectral Summary
Spectral Band Configuration (final)
Spectral Response Files (final)

Level-1B Data Distribution
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DAAC

Related Web Sites
Airborne Sensors Facility Page
NASA ER-2 Aircraft Program
JPL AVIRIS Web Site
NASA ER-2 1999 Flight Summary Reports

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