Fourth Convection and Moisture Experiment ER2 MODIS Airborne Simulator

Description

The Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX) 4 focused on the study of tropical cyclone (hurricane) development, tracking, intensification, and landfalling impacts using NASA-fundend aircraft and surface remote sensing instrumentation. These aircraft flew over, through, and around selected hurricanes as they approached landfall in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and along the East Coast of the United States. This study yields high spatial and temporal information of hurricane structure, dynamics, and motion. The data set contains the measurements collected by the MAS instrument onboard the ER2 aircraft. The MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) is an airborne scanning spectrometer that acquires high spatial resolution imagery of cloud and surface features from its vantage point on-board a NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft. The MAS spectrometer acquires high spatial resolution imagery in the range of 0.55 to 14.3 microns. A total of 50 spectral bands are available in this range. A 50-channel digitizer which records all 50 spectral bands at 12 bit resolution became operational in January 1995. The MAS spectrometer is mated to a scanner sub-assembly which collects image data with an IFOV of 2.5 mrad, giving a ground resolution of 50 meters from 20000 meters altitude, and a cross track scan width of 85.92 degrees.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 camex_mas_read_idl.pro https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/project/camex4/read_software/camex_mas_read_idl.pro
21 http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/camex4/camex4_table
21 http://airbornescience.nsstc.nasa.gov/camex4/
21 https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/project/camex4/read_software/camex_mas_read.c
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC_DAAC%2FCAMEX4%2F0001
21 https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/citing-asdc-data
21 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/project?p=%21C1337194583-LARC_ASDC
21 https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/project/camex4/camex4_table
21 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/CAMEX4/0001
21 contents.html https://opendap.larc.nasa.gov/opendap/CAMEX4/ER2_MAS/contents.html
21 readme_camex_mas.txt https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/project/camex4/readme/readme_camex_mas.txt

Tags

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

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