Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Airborne Topographic Mapper | ATM | William Krabill (Prev PI) | NASA WFF | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, HU-25A Guardian - LaRC | Lidar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 0.2 m (at 0.8 km)
| 532 nm | Pulsed at 5 kHz | |||
Ames Extinction Scattering Optical Property Instrument | AESOP | Anthony Strawa (PI) | NASA ARC | Twin Otter - GRC | Particle Extinction, Single Scattering Albedo | In situ
| 1 Hz
| 405 nm; 675 nm | ||||||
Carbon Dioxide Laser Absorption Spectrometer | CO2LAS | Gary Spiers (PI) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC, Twin Otter - GRC | Spectrometer (in situ) | CO2 | In situ
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Cloud Integrating Nephelometer | CIN | Hermann Gerber (PI) | Gerber Scientific, Inc. | C-130H - WFF, Citation, Twin Otter - GRC, WB-57 - JSC | Optical particle counter | Asymmetry Parameter, Optical Extinction Coefficient, Extinction-to-Backscatter Ratio | In situ
| 4-2500 µm | ||||||
Digital Camera System | DCS | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | USRA | B200 - LARC, DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, Twin Otter - GRC, WB-57 - JSC | Camera | Imagery | Ground
| Downwards pointing but not directly downwards
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GRC Hyperspectral Imager | HSI3.1 | Roger Tokars (PI) | NASA GRC | Twin Otter - GRC | Camera | 400-900 nm | ||||||||
Hyperspectral Thermal Emissions Spectrometer | HyTES | Simon Hook (PI) | JPL | Twin Otter - GRC, Gulfstream III - LaRC, Gulfstream V - JSC | Spectrometer | Temperature | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 3590 m (at 4 km)
| 7 m (at 4 km)
| 7.5-12 µm | |||
Ku-band Radar Altimeter | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, C-130H - WFF | Radar | Sea Ice Surface Elevation | Ground
| 13-17 GHz | |||||||
Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder | MCoRDS | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Radar | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 20-60 MHz | |||||
Passive Active L- and S-band Sensor | PALS | Sid Misra (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, DC-8 - AFRC | Radar, Scatterometer, Radiometer | Radar backscatter, Ocean Salinity, Soil Moisture | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 1.26 GHz; 1.413 GHz | scatterometer | ||||
Polarimetric Ku-Band Scatterometer | PolSCAT | Steven J Dinardo (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Radar, Scatterometer | Radar backscatter | Ground
| Conical scanning
| 13.95 GHz | |||||
Slope Imaging Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar | SIMPL | David Harding (PI) | NASA GSFC | Learjet 25, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Lidar | Sea Ice Surface Elevation, Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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TSI 3563 Integrating Nephelometer | TSI Neph | Cessna 402B, Citation, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, Twin Otter (DOE) | Particle Extinction | In situ
| 1 Hz
| 450 nm; 550 nm; 700 nm | 40 nm bandwidth | |||||||
Warm Ice Sounding Explorer | WISE | Yonggyu Gim (PI) | JPL | DC-3, Twin Otter - GRC | Sounder | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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