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 221 - 240 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Laser Induced Fluorescence – Sulfur Dioxide LIF-SO2
Andrew Rollins
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC Fluorescence SO2
Lightning Instrument Project LIP
Monte Bateman
(Mgr) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; Global Hawk - AFRC Electric field; Lightning; Air Conductivity
L-Band Interference Surveyor/Analyzer LISA
Joel Johnson
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Interference
X-Band Lightweight Rainfall Radiometer LRR-X
Eric Smith
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Radiometer Particle size distribution; Rain Rate
Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor LVIS
J. Bryan Blair
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; C-130H - WFF; Cessna 402B; Citation; DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Gulfstream III - LaRC; Gulfstream V - JSC; Gulfstream V - NSF; B200 - Dynamic Aviation Lidar Vegetation; Vegetation structure; surface topography; ice and sea ice elevations; ocean surface topography
Lightweight Balloon Interferometer LWBI
Geoffrey Toon
(PI) 		Balloon Interferometer
Multicenter Airborne Coherent Atmospheric Wind Sensor MACAWS
Jeffry Rothermel
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Lidar Wind; Aerosol Backscattering
Measurements of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Over Northwestern North America MACDONNA
Stephanie A. Vay
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Gas chromatography CO2
Multi-sample Aerosol Collection System MACS
James Wilson
(PI) 		WB-57 - JSC; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Counterflow virtual impactor Particle size distribution
Multispectral Atmospheric Mapping Sensor MAMS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr) 		ER-2 - AFRC Photometer H2O (total); Temperature
Marshall Airborne Polarimetric Imaging Radiometer MAPIR
Chip Laymon
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Microwave Radiometer Brightness Temperature
Multi-function Airborne Raman Lidar MARLi
Zhien Wang
(PI) 		NSF/NCAR C-130; University of Wyoming King Air; P-3 Orion - WFF Lidar H2O; Temperature; Aerosol; and cloud profiles
MODIS Airborne Simulator MAS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Multiple-Angle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe MASP
Darrel Baumgardner
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer (in situ) Particle concentration; Particle size distribution; Particle Extinction
Modular Aerial Sensing System MASS
Luc Lenain
(PI) 		Twin Otter International; Partenavia P68C (Aspen Helicopter); Gulfstream V - JSC Lidar Ocean surface and land topography; thermal imagery; hyperspectral imagery; visible imagery; point temperature
MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator MASTER
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr) 		B-200 - DOE - ARC; DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; P-3 Orion - WFF Spectrometer Imagery
MOPITT Airborne Test Radiometer MATR
John Gille
(Prev PI) 		Citation Radiometer CO; CH4
Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder MCoRDS
Carl Leuschen
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC Radar Ice Sheet Thickness
Medusa Whole Air Sampler Medusa
Britton Stephens
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Whole Air Sampling O2; CO2; N2; Argon; CO2 isotopes
Multi-functional Fiber Laser Lidar MFLL
Jeremy Dobler
(PI) 		B-200 (UC-12B) - LARC Lidar Altitude

 

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