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 27.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Airborne 2-Channel Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer ALIAS-II
Lance Christensen
(PI) 		Balloon Spectrometer N2O; CH4; CO; HCl; NO2
Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance Air-LUSI
Kevin Turpie
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Lunar Spectral Irradiance
Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer AirMISR
Dave Diner
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Camera; Spectrometer Topography
Airborne Ocean Color Imager AOCI
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(Mgr) 		ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Airborne Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer - 3 AVIRIS-3
Robert O. Green
(PI) 		B200 - Dynamic Aviation; G-III; G-V-JSC Spectrometer Radiance from the surface and atmosphere.
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer AVIRIS-Classic
Robert O. Green
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC; Proteus; Twin Otter; WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer Imagery
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
Chicago Water Isotope Spectrometer Chi-WIS
Benjamin Clouser
(Mgr) 		WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer H2O; HDO
Direct beam Irradiance Airborne Spectrometer DIAS
Samuel R. Hall
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Aerosol; Optical Depth; O3
Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator eMAS
Steve Platnick
(Co-I) 		ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer FTIR
Michael Coffey
(PI) 		DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer HCl; ClONO2; N2O; NO; NO2; HNO3; HF; CH4; C2H6; H2O; CO2; CF2Cl2; O3
GeoCAPE Airborne Spectrometer GCAS
Scott Janz
(PI) 		B200 - LARC; WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer NO2; CH2O
Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer GIFS
Sam Yee
(PI) 		P-3 Orion - WFF Spectrometer Cloud Thickness
Hawaii Group for Environmental Aerosol Research HIGEAR
Antony Clarke
(Co-I) 		DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF CN counter; Differential mobility; Laser absorption; Optical particle counter; Photometer; Spectrometer Particle Absorption; CCN; Particle Scattering; Aerosol Size Distribution; Black Carbon
HyMap HyMap
Terry Cocks
(PI) 		Cessna 402B; WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer Imagery
Hyperspectral Thermal Emissions Spectrometer HyTES
Simon Hook
(PI) 		Twin Otter - GRC; Gulfstream III - LaRC; Gulfstream V - JSC Spectrometer Temperature
Leonardo Airborne Simulator LAS
Si-Chee Tsay
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
mini-DOAS mini-DOAS
Jochen Peter Stutz
(PI) 		Global Hawk - AFRC Spectrometer BrO; NO2; O4
MODIS Airborne Simulator MAS
James D. Jacobson Jr.
(PI) 		ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery

 

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