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 121 - 140 of 356.
Title Sort descending Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Doppler Aerosol WiNd Lidar DAWN (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC Lidar Line of Sight Wind Speed; Vector Wind Speed and Direction; Aerosol Backscattering
Doppler Scatterometry DopplerScatt (PI) B200 (#801) - AFRC Scatterometer Doppler Velocity
Dropsondes - DC-8 D8D (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Dropsonde Temperature
Dual Channel Airborne tunable diode Laser Spectrometer DCALS (Co-I) DC-8 - AFRC Laser absorption; Spectrometer (in situ) CH3OH; CH2O
Dual-Beam UV-Absorption Ozone Photometer NOAA O3 Classic (PI) ER-2 - AFRC; Balloon; WB-57 - JSC Photometer O3
Dual-Frequency Airborne Precipitation Radar PR-2 (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Radar Doppler radar backscatter
Electronically Scanning Thinned-Array Radiometer ESTAR (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Radiometer Soil Moisture; Ocean Salinity
Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator eMAS (Co-I) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
ER-2 Doppler Radar EXRAD (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Radar Radar Reflectivity; Doppler Velocity; [tid:397]
ER-2 High Altitude Dropsonde EHAD (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Dropsonde Temperature
Fabry-Perot Interferometer FPI (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Interferometer O2; CO2
Fast Cloud Droplet Probe FCDP (PI) WB-57 - JSC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Global Hawk - AFRC; Learjet SPEC; DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Optical particle counter Cloud Particle Number and Size Distributions
Fast In-situ Stratospheric Hygrometer FISH (PI) WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC H2O
Fibre-optic Fed Slit-Spectrograph SLIT (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer (in situ) Brightness Temperature
Flight Modem (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Navigation recorder Aircraft position
FluidCam (PI)
Focused Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer FCAS (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC; Gulfstream V - NSF; WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC Optical particle counter Particle size distribution
Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe FSSP (PI) Citation; DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC Optical particle counter Particle size distribution
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer FTIR (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer HCl; ClONO2; N2O; NO; NO2; HNO3; HF; CH4; C2H6; H2O; CO2; CF2Cl2; O3
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Snow Thickness Radar FMCW (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Snow Thickness

 

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