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 27.
Title Acronym Contact Person Aircraft Type Measurements
Airborne 2-Channel Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer ALIAS-II (PI) Balloon Spectrometer N2O; CH4; CO; HCl; NO2
Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance Air-LUSI (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Lunar Spectral Irradiance
Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer AirMISR (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Camera; Spectrometer Topography
Airborne Ocean Color Imager AOCI (Mgr) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Airborne Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer - 3 AVIRIS-3 (PI) B200 - Dynamic Aviation; G-III; G-V-JSC Spectrometer Radiance from the surface and atmosphere.
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer AVIRIS-Classic (PI) ER-2 - AFRC; Proteus; Twin Otter; WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer Imagery
Automatic Meteor Tracker with Imager and Slit Spectrograph AIM-IT (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Autonomous Modular Sensor AMS (Mgr) Altair; B200 - LARC; Caravan; ER-2 - AFRC; Ikhana; DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Chicago Water Isotope Spectrometer Chi-WIS (Mgr) WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer H2O; HDO
Direct beam Irradiance Airborne Spectrometer DIAS (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer Aerosol; Optical Depth; O3
Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator eMAS (Co-I) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer FTIR (PI) DC-8 - AFRC Spectrometer HCl; ClONO2; N2O; NO; NO2; HNO3; HF; CH4; C2H6; H2O; CO2; CF2Cl2; O3
GeoCAPE Airborne Spectrometer GCAS (PI) B200 - LARC; WB-57 - JSC; Global Hawk - AFRC; ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer NO2; CH2O
Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer GIFS (PI) P-3 Orion - WFF Spectrometer Cloud Thickness
Hawaii Group for Environmental Aerosol Research HIGEAR (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 (PI) Cessna 402B; WB-57 - JSC Spectrometer Imagery
Hyperspectral Thermal Emissions Spectrometer HyTES (PI) Twin Otter - GRC; Gulfstream III - LaRC; Gulfstream V - JSC Spectrometer Temperature
Leonardo Airborne Simulator LAS (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery
mini-DOAS mini-DOAS (PI) Global Hawk - AFRC Spectrometer BrO; NO2; O4
MODIS Airborne Simulator MAS (PI) ER-2 - AFRC Spectrometer Imagery

 

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