Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (AirMISR) Data from the BARC 2001 Campaign

Description

The AirMISR BARC 2001 data were acquired during a flight over the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) on July 21, 2001. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California provided the data. The Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (AirMISR) is an airborne instrument for obtaining multi-angle imagery similar to that of the satellite-borne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument, which is designed to contribute to studies of the Earth's ecology and climate. AirMISR flies on the NASA ER-2 aircraft. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California built the instrument for NASA. Unlike the satellite-borne MISR instrument, which has nine cameras oriented at various angles, AirMISR uses a single camera in a pivoting gimbal mount. A data run by the ER-2 aircraft is divided into nine segments, each with the camera positioned to a MISR look angle. The gimbal rotates between successive segments, such that each segment acquires data over the same area on the ground as the previous segment. This process is repeated until all nine angles of the target area are collected. The swath width, which varies from 11 km in the nadir to 32 km at the most oblique angle, is governed by the camera's instantaneous field-of-view of 7 meters cross-track x 6 meters along-track in the nadir view and 21 meters x 55 meters at the most oblique angle. The along-track image length at each angle is dictated by the timing required to obtain overlap imagery at all angles, and varies from about 9 km in the nadir to 26 km at the most oblique angle. Thus, the nadir image dictates the area of overlap that is obtained from all nine angles. A complete flight run takes approximately 13 minutes. The 9 camera viewing angles are: 0 degrees or nadir 26.1 degrees, fore and aft 45.6 degrees, fore and aft 60.0 degrees, fore and aft 70.5 degrees, fore and aft. For each of the camera angles, images are obtained at 4 spectral bands. The spectral bands can be used to identify vegetation and aerosols, estimate surface reflectance and ocean color studies. The center wavelengths of the 4 spectral bands are: 443 nanometers, blue 555 nanometers, green 670 nanometers, red 865 nanometers, near-infrared Two types of AirMISR data products are available - the Level 1 Radiometric product (L1B1) and the Level 1 Georectified radiance product (L1B2).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 AirMISR Read Software Document Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/airmisr_read_software.pdf
33 Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer Project Handbook https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/guide/misr_ov2.pdf
21 NASA EOS ATB Documents: MISR https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd-category/45
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for AIRMISR_BARC_2001_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/AirMISR/AIRMISR_BARC_2001/
21 AirMISR project home page https://misr.jpl.nasa.gov/Mission/airMISR/
21 Readme to open and read AIRMISR L1B2 GP (Georectified Radiance Product) HDF-EOS data files https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/read_software/read_airmisr.pro
33 Quality Summary: AirMISR BARC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/quality_summaries/airmisr_barc_2001.pdf
21 DOI data set landing page for AIRMISR_BARC_2001_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/AIRMISR_BARC_2001_1
33 AirMISR Data Products Specifications, December 21, 2000 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/readme/AirMISR_DPS_F01.pdf
33 AirMISR Data Products Specifications, Rev. A, December 21,2000 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/readme/AirMISR_DPS.pdf
45 AirMISR L1B2/L2AS Coregistration Tool - Direct File Download (.tar) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/tools/coregister_L1B2_L2AS.tar
21 NASA Earth ObservatoryArticle: "Fiery Temperament" By Michon Scott, May 14, 2002 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/FieryTemperament
21 Google Earth https://www.google.com/earth/
21 Links to tools available through the ASDC https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/tools-and-services
21 NASA Earthdata Forum - MISR Project Specific Forum https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/MISR
33 MISR Observing Concept Fact Sheet https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/observing_concept.pdf
25 MISR Paths Tool - Direct File Download (.kml) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/tools/misr_paths.kml
21 MISR Peer-Reviewed Publications https://misr.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/peerReviewed/
33 Overview of MISR Data at the ASDC, 2015 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/ASDC_MISR_Overview_2015.pdf
33 MISR Science Data Product Guide - May 7, 2012 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/guide/MISR_Science_Data_Product_Guide.pdf
33 MISR Workshop Presentations, June 2002 - August 2010 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/misr_workshop.pdf
33 Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) Overview Fact Sheet https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/overview_misr.pdf
36 Obtaining MISR Data and Information, Presented by Jeff Walter Atmospheric Science Data Center - April 17, 2009 - Direct File Download (.ppt) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/obtaining_misr_data.ppt
21 USDA Overview of Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology (LARSE) https://www.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/groups/larse
21 AirMISR L1B2/L2AS Coregistration Tool IDL source code - Direct File Download (.pro) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/tools/coregister_L1B2_L2AS.pro
33 NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Following the World Trade Center plume - Remote sensing helps track the drift of harmful pollutants following the World Trade Center collapse. https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1187/NASA_SOP_2007_Following_the_World_Trade_Center_plume.pdf
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Squeezing Water from Rock - Survivors of the New Madrid earthquakes reported not only intense ground shaking and land movement, but also an unfamiliar phenomenon of water and sand spouting up through cracks in the Earth's surface. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Earthquake
21 ASDC Terra Spacecraft Loss of Accurate Orbit Data Record https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/terra-maneuvers.html
21 NASA Captures "EPIC" Earth Image Article from July 20, 2015 https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-captures-epic-earth-image
21 ASDC Data and Information for MISR https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/MISR
33 ASDC Documents for Using AirMISR Data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/using_airmisr_data.pdf
33 Journal of Geophysical Research Article: "Aerosol properties derived from aircraft multiangle imagingover Monterey Bay" by Ralph Kahn, Pranab Banerjee, Duncan McDonald, and John Martonchik, June 16, 2001 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/readme/MultiangleAerosolMonterey.pdf
21 NASA JPL Photojournal: New Images of Irma's Towering Clouds - MISR passes over Irma over the Dominican Republic as a Category 5 hurricane. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21945
21 ASDC Data and Information for AirMISR https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/AIRMISR
21 Earthdata Search for AIRMISR_BARC_2001_1 (NASA Application to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1000000701-LARC_ASDC
33 AirMISR Data Products Specifications, Rev. C, December 21,2000 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/readme/AirMISR_DPS_RevC.pdf
21 OPeNDAP data access for AIRMISR_BARC_2001_1 https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/AirMISR/AIRMISR_BARC_2001/contents.html
21 Readme Information about the AirMISR Data During a Flight over Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) on July 21, 2001 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/readme/readme_airmisr_barc_2001
33 Data Product Specification for MISR - Revision S, April 15, 2011 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/DPS_v50_RevS.pdf
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Tracking Clouds - Tune in to the evening weather report on any given day, and you'll no doubt see satellite images of clouds. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/tracking
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC_DAAC%2FAIRMISR_BARC_2001_1
33 Journal of Geophysical Research Article: "Sensitivity of multiangle imaging to natural mixturesof aerosols over ocean" by Ralph Kahn, Pranab Banerjee, and Duncan McDonald, August 27, 2001 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/readme/MultiangleAerosolRetrieval.pdf
21 MISR project home page https://misr.jpl.nasa.gov/
21 Tool to identify MISR Paths/Blocks intersecting a specified lat/lon box https://l0dup05.larc.nasa.gov/misr_loc/misr_loc.html
21 AirMISR L1B2/L2AS Coregistration Tool IDL executable save file (use with the IDL Virtual Machine) - Direct File Download (.sav) https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/tools/coregister_L1B2_L2AS.sav
21 AirMISR L1B2/L2AS Coregistration Tool Readme https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/tools/readme_L1B2_L2AS_coregistration_tool.txt
33 NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Smoke over Athens - The effects of forest fires show up in a multi-satellite view of pollution. https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1240/NASA_SOP_2009_Smoke_over_Athens.pdf
33 NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Aerosols over Australia - Researchers explore the links between atmospheric aerosols, climate change, and ultraviolet rays. https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1194/NASA_SOP_2008_Aerosols_over_Australia.pdf
33 NASA Earthdata Content Delivery Network (CDN) Article: Cloudy with a chance of Drizzle - By analyzing data from the MISR instrument, scientists discover that a unique type of cloud formation is much more prevalent than was previously believed. https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/1257/NASA_SOP_2005_Cloudy_with_a_Chance_of_Drizzle.pdf
21 NASA Earth Observatory Article: Looking at the Moon to Better See Earth - Terra satellite performs manuver that allows all nine of MISR's camera to capture images of the moon. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/90764/looking-at-the-moon-to-better-see-earth
21 NASA JPL Images: Tropical Storm Harvey over Texas - After making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane the day before, striking images are captured by MISR as the storm maintained a dangerous tropical storm status. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21927
21 ASDC List of MISR Imagery and Articles https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/misr/imagery.html
21 AirMISR Campaign Imagery: AirMISR Red Band Browse Images from the BARC_2001 Field Campaign (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center), July 21, 2001 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/documents/airmisr/airmisr_BARC_2001_images.html

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  • infrared-wavelengths
  • visible-wavelengths
  • spectral-engineering
  • earth-science

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