The Airborne Science Instrument Database provides details on the science instruments that have been used as part of NASA-funded airborne research.
To search the database, use any of the following filters to limit the displayed results. To scroll through the results, use the links at the bottom of the page. Clicking on any instrument name will take you to a page providing full information on that instrument.
Currently displayed: instruments 21 - 27 of 27.Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Aircraft | Type | Measurements |
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Automatic Meteor Tracker with Imager and Slit Spectrograph | AIM-IT | George Varros (PI) | DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery |
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer | AVIRIS-Classic | Robert O. Green (PI) | ER-2 - AFRC, Proteus, Twin Otter, WB-57 - JSC | Spectrometer | Imagery |
Airborne Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer - 3 | AVIRIS-3 | Robert O. Green (PI) | B200 - Dynamic Aviation, G-III, G-V-JSC | Spectrometer | Radiance from the surface and atmosphere. |
Airborne Ocean Color Imager | AOCI | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery |
Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | AirMISR | Dave Diner (PI) | ER-2 - AFRC | Camera, Spectrometer | Topography |
Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance | Air-LUSI | Kevin Turpie (PI) | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Lunar Spectral Irradiance |
Airborne 2-Channel Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer | ALIAS-II | Lance Christensen (PI) | Balloon | Spectrometer | N2O, CH4, CO, HCl, NO2 |