Airborne Science Instrument Database

The Airborne Science Instrument Database provides details on the science instruments that have been used as part of NASA-funded airborne research.

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Currently displayed: instruments 1 - 20 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Large Pixel Format CCD Camera
Franziska Harms
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Video Uplink
Edward Schilling
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Microspectrometer
Jim Jungel
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF
Broadband CO2 Lidar - 1.5 micron version
Nader Abuhassan
(Co-I) 		DC-8 - AFRC Lidar CO2
Flight Modem
Alex Coleman
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Navigation recorder Aircraft position
Aerosol Lidar
William Grant
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Lidar Aerosol Scattering Ratio; Aerosol Backscattering; Aerosol Depolarization Ratio
CN - Hawaii
Antony Clarke
(Co-I) 		DC-8 - AFRC CN counter CCN
Ku-band Radar Altimeter
Carl Leuschen
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC; C-130H - WFF Radar Sea Ice Surface Elevation
Goodrich Clear Air Turbulence Data Collection
Kris Deverasety
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Turbulence
In-Situ Ozone
Melody Avery
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC
J(NO2) Radiometer
John Barrick
(Co-I) 		DC-8 - AFRC Radiometer Solar flux
OSCAR portable
Laura Iraci
(PI) 		Spectrometer (in situ) CO; CO2
Reactive Nitrogen
David Fahey
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC NO2; NO3; NOy; NO; N2O5; ClONO2
OSCAR lab
Laura Iraci
(PI) 		Spectrometer (in situ) CO; CO2
ARC Picarro
Warren Gore
(Co-I) 		Alpha Jet; DC-8 - AFRC CH4; CO2
NOAA Picarro
Kathryn McKain
(Co-I) 		DC-8 - AFRC; Alpha Jet Spectrometer (in situ) CO2; CH4; CO
Lyman Alpha-Hygrometer
Ken Kelly
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC
Accumulation Radar
Carl Leuschen
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Snow Thickness; Ice Sheet Thickness
NOAA Water
Troy Thornberry
(PI) 		Global Hawk - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Laser absorption H2O; H2O (total)
Alpha Jet Ozone Instrument
Laura Iraci
(PI) 		Alpha Jet Spectrometer (in situ) O3

 

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