Thursday, February 9, 2017
The L-band radar completed its first two flights of the new year aboard the JSC G-III aircraft. Imaging of the Sacramento Delta levee area was performed on the first flight and the SnowEx study sites in Colorado on the second flight. SnowEx is a multi-year airborne snow campaign designed to collect multi-sensor aircraft data and ground truth measurements to enable algorithm development and inform the design of a future satellite mission. The three-week campaign began on February 6 and in all, 8 airborne instruments will acquire data over Grand Mesa and Senator Beck Basin, including JPL’s UAVSAR, GLISTIN-A, and ASO (Airborne Snow Observatory).