Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator

Status

Status
Operational
Operated By
Facility

The Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator (EMAS) is a multispectral scanner configured to approximate the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS), an instrument orbiting on the NASA Terra and Aqua satellites. MODIS is designed to measure terrestrial and atmospheric processes. The EMAS was a joint development project of Daedalus Enterprises, Berkeley Camera Engineering, the USU Space Dynamics Laboratory, and Ames Research Center. The EMAS system acquires 50-meter spatial resolution imagery, in 38 spectral bands, of cloud and surface features from the vantage point of the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft.

Instrument Type: Multispectral Imager
Measurements: VNIR/SWIR/LWIR Imagery

Instrument Type
Measurements
Aircraft
Recent Missions
(ER-2 - AFRC)
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(ER-2 - AFRC)
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(ER-2 - AFRC)
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(ER-2 - AFRC)
Point(s) of Contact
Range of Measurement
Ground
Instrument Pointing
Cross-track scanning
Measurement Sampling Rate
6.25 Hz
Swath Width
36000.00 m (at 19.8 km)
Horizontal Resolution
50.00 m (at 19.8 km)
Measurement Wavelengths
38 channels at 0.4649-14.18 µm
Mission-Specific Writeups
Satellite
MODIS
Publications

 

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