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 1 - 20 of 356.
Title Acronym Sort descending Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Large Pixel Format CCD Camera (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Video Uplink (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Camera Imagery
Microspectrometer (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF
Broadband CO2 Lidar - 1.5 micron version (Co-I) DC-8 - AFRC Lidar CO2
Flight Modem (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Navigation recorder Aircraft position
Aerosol Lidar (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Lidar Aerosol Scattering Ratio; Aerosol Backscattering; Aerosol Depolarization Ratio
CN - Hawaii (Co-I) DC-8 - AFRC CN counter CCN
Ku-band Radar Altimeter (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC; C-130H - WFF Radar Sea Ice Surface Elevation
Goodrich Clear Air Turbulence Data Collection (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Turbulence
In-Situ Ozone (PI) ER-2 - AFRC
J(NO2) Radiometer (Co-I) DC-8 - AFRC Radiometer Solar flux
OSCAR portable (PI) Spectrometer (in situ) CO; CO2
Reactive Nitrogen (PI) ER-2 - AFRC NO2; NO3; NOy; NO; N2O5; ClONO2
OSCAR lab (PI) Spectrometer (in situ) CO; CO2
ARC Picarro (Co-I) Alpha Jet; DC-8 - AFRC CH4; CO2
NOAA Picarro (Co-I) DC-8 - AFRC; Alpha Jet Spectrometer (in situ) CO2; CH4; CO
Lyman Alpha-Hygrometer (PI) ER-2 - AFRC
Accumulation Radar (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Snow Thickness; Ice Sheet Thickness
NOAA Water (PI) Global Hawk - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Laser absorption H2O; H2O (total)
Alpha Jet Ozone Instrument (PI) Alpha Jet Spectrometer (in situ) O3