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 41 - 60 of 356.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer AVIRIS-Classic
Robert O. Green
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC; Proteus; Twin Otter; WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer Imagery
Aircraft Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer ALIAS
Lance Christensen
(PI) 		Balloon; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC; WB-57 - JSC Laser absorption; Spectrometer (in situ) N2O; H2O isotopes; H2O; CO; CH4; CO2 isotopes; HCl
Alpha Jet Ozone Instrument
Laura Iraci
(PI) 		Alpha Jet Spectrometer (in situ) O3
Ames Digital Imager DIM
Paul F. Wercinski
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Ames Extinction Scattering Optical Property Instrument AESOP
Anthony Strawa
(PI) 		Twin Otter - GRC Particle Extinction; Single Scattering Albedo
Applanix POS System POS AV
Lee Thornhill
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; Caravan; Cessna 402B; DC-8 - AFRC; J-31; WB-57 - JSC Navigation recorder Aircraft position
ARC Picarro
Warren Gore
(Co-I) 		Alpha Jet; DC-8 - AFRC CH4; CO2
Argus Tunable Diode Laser Instrument ARGUS
Max Loewenstein
(PI) 		Balloon; ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Laser absorption; Spectrometer (in situ) CO; CH4; N2O
Atmospheric Vertical Observations of CO2 in the Earth's Troposphere AVOCET
Joshua P. DiGangi
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Spectrometer (in situ) CO2
Automatic Meteor Tracker with Imager and Slit Spectrograph AIM-IT
George Varros
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Autonomous Modular Sensor AMS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr) 		Altair; B200 - LARC; Caravan; ER-2 - AFRC; Ikhana; DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Axial Cyclone Cloud-water Collector AC3
Ewan Crosbie
(Co-I) 		C-130H - WFF; P-3 Orion - WFF; HU-25 Falcon - LaRC Ion Chromatography Aqueous concentrations of bulk cloud-water species (e.g.; Sulfate; Nitrate; sodium; Ca+2; TOC; pH)
Balloon Borne Frost Point Hygrometer Balloon FPH
Dale Hurst
(PI) 		Balloon H2O
Balloonsondes (NOAA) Balloonsondes (NOAA)
Dale Hurst
(PI) 		Balloon H2O; O3; Temperature; Pressure
Berkeley Nitrogen Oxides Detector BNOD
Ronald C. Cohen
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Fluorescence NO2; HNO3; CH3O3NO2
Broadband CO2 Lidar - 1.5 micron version
Nader Abuhassan
(Co-I) 		DC-8 - AFRC Lidar CO2
BroadBand Radiometers BBR
Anthony Bucholtz
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; C-130H - WFF; WB-57 - JSC Radiometer Solar and IR radiative flux; Total; Direct; Diffuse Solar radiative flux
Carbon Airborne Flux Experiment CARAFE
Glenn M. Wolfe
(PI) 		C-23 Sherpa - WFF Laser absorption CO2; CH4; H2O concentrations and fluxes
Carbon Dioxide and Ozone Airborne in Situ Tracers COAST
Melody Avery
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF
Carbon Dioxide Laser Absorption Spectrometer CO2LAS
Gary Spiers
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC; Twin Otter - GRC Spectrometer (in situ) CO2

 

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