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.

To search the database, use any of the following filters to limit the displayed results. To scroll through the results, use the links at the bottom of the page. Clicking on any instrument name will take you to a page providing full information on that instrument.

Currently displayed: instruments 1 - 20 of 23.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Accumulation Radar (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Snow Thickness; Ice Sheet Thickness
Airborne Cloud Radar ACR (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter (DOE) Radar Radar Reflectivity
Airborne Glacier and Land Ice Surface Topography Interferometer GLISTIN-A (PI) Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC Interferometer; Radar Topography
Airborne Rain Mapping Radar ARMAR (Co-I) DC-8 - AFRC Radar Doppler Velocity; Radar Reflectivity; Brightness Temperature
Airborne Second Generation Precipitation Radar APR-2 (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Radar Reflectivity; Doppler Velocity
Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar AIRSAR (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Radar Radar backscatter
Airborne Third Generation Precipitation Radar APR-3 (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF; DC-8 - AFRC Radar Radar Reflectivity; Doppler Velocity
Cloud Radar System CRS (PI) ER-2 - AFRC; WB-57 - JSC Radar Radar Reflectivity; Doppler Velocity
Coherent Radar Depth Sounder CARDS (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Sounder; Radar Ice Sheet Thickness
Delay-Doppler Phase-monopulse Radar D2P (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Altitude
Dual-Frequency Airborne Precipitation Radar PR-2 (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Radar Doppler radar backscatter
ER-2 Doppler Radar EXRAD (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Radar Radar Reflectivity; Doppler Velocity; [tid:397]
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Snow Thickness Radar FMCW (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Snow Thickness
Global Ice-sheet Mapping Orbiter GISMO (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Interferometer; Radar Topography
High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler HIWRAP (PI) Global Hawk - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Radar; Scatterometer Radar Reflectivity; Doppler Velocity; Wind
Ku-band Radar Altimeter (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC; C-130H - WFF Radar Sea Ice Surface Elevation
Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder MCoRDS (PI) DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC Radar Ice Sheet Thickness
Passive Active L- and S-band Sensor PALS (PI) C-130H - WFF; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC; DC-8 - AFRC Radar; Scatterometer; Radiometer Radar backscatter; Ocean Salinity; Soil Moisture
Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder PARIS (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Radar Topography
Polarimetric Ku-Band Scatterometer PolSCAT (PI) C-130H - WFF; DC-8 - AFRC; P-3 Orion - WFF; Twin Otter - GRC; Twin Otter - GRC Radar; Scatterometer Radar backscatter

 

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