Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Airborne Glacier and Land Ice Surface Topography Interferometer | GLISTIN-A | Delwyn Moller (PI) | JPL | Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC | Interferometer, Radar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
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Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper Experiment | ALTM | Steve Young (PI) | NASA LaRC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
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Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | AirMISR | Dave Diner (PI) | JPL | ER-2 - AFRC | Camera, Spectrometer | Topography | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Downwards pointing but not directly downwards (angles: 70.5, 60, 45.6, 26.1)
| 11000 m (at 20 km)
| 27.5 m (at 20 km)
| 446 nm; 558 nm; 672 nm; 866 nm | |||
Airborne Topographic Mapper | ATM | William Krabill (Prev PI) | NASA WFF | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, HU-25A Guardian - LaRC | Lidar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 0.2 m (at 0.8 km)
| 532 nm | Pulsed at 5 kHz | |||
Global Ice-sheet Mapping Orbiter | GISMO | Ken Jezek (PI) | Ohio State | P-3 Orion - WFF | Interferometer, Radar | Topography | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Multi-kilohertz Microlaser Altimeter | MMLA | Phil Dabney (PI) | NASA GSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Camera, Photometer | Topography | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder | PARIS | Keith Raney (PI) | JHU APL | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radar | Topography | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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