MASTER: Flight Line Geospatial Polygons and Contextual Data

Description

This dataset provides resources for identifying flight lines of interest for the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument based on spatial and temporal criteria. MASTER first flew in 1998 and has ongoing deployments as a Facility Instrument in the NASA Airborne Science Program (ASP). MASTER is a joint project involving the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF) at the Ames Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS). The primary goal of these airborne campaigns is to demonstrate important science and applications research that is uniquely enabled by the full suite of MASTER thermal infrared bands as well as the contiguous spectroscopic measurements of the AVIRIS (also flown in similar campaigns), or combinations of measurements from both instruments. This dataset includes a table of flight lines with dates, bounding coordinates, site names, investigators involved, flight attributes, and associated campaigns for the MASTER Facility Instrument Collection. A shapefile containing flights for all years, a GeoJSON version of the shapefile, and separate KMZ files for each year allow users to visualize flight line locations using GIS software.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F2151
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/MASTER/guides/MASTER_Flightline_Locator.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2151
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/master/MASTER_Flightline_Locator/
33 MASTER: Flight Line Geospatial Polygons and Contextual Data: MASTER_Flightline_Locator.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/master/MASTER_Flightline_Locator/comp/MASTER_Flightline_Locator.pdf
22 Distribution of MASTER flight lines over Greenland, North America, and Pacific Ocean for 1998 to 2022. Insets show details of flights in the U.S. over (A) Washington and Oregon and (B) Louisiana, Mississippi, and Gulf of Mexico. Footprints of acquired imagery are shown as rectangular polygons. https://daac.ornl.gov/MASTER/guides/MASTER_Flightline_Locator_Fig1.jpg

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  • spectral-engineering
  • platform-characteristics
  • earth-science

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