ASO began its February 1 acquisitions of snow-on data in the Tuolumne basin last week.
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03/10/2017
The Classic Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS-C) completed the HyspIRI Hawaii campaign on Friday, March 3.
03/10/2017
On Thursday, March 2 the flight team successfully collected 7 lines over the Big Island (FL05). On Friday, March 3 the flight team flight team successfully collected 8 lines over Maui and Oahu (FL06). On Saturday, March 4 the flight team attempted to collect lines over Oahu, Maui, Lanai, and Big Island, but were unsuccessful due to rapidly changing cloud cover associated with the incoming front (FL07).
03/03/2017
ASO completed a successful campaign with NASA’s SnowEx mission, flying a total of five sorties over the Senator Beck and Grand Mesa basins. The SnowEx mission also collected UAVSAR data and GLISTIN Ka-Band interferometry data nearly coincident with ASO data. This collection of airborne and ground measurements will be hugely beneficial for future spaceborne missions to understand the global water cycle and snowpack interaction.
03/03/2017
The Classic Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS-C) is in the final week of the HyspIRI Airborne Preparatory Campaign at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the Island of Oahu. The campaign has collected a majority of the coral reef sites, and repeated coverage of the Kilauea and Mauna Loa active volcanoes.
The next generation Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS-NG) had a second successful flight on the NASA ER-2 (809). Data was collected over Moffett Field and Jasper Ridge which are both long term validation sites for AVIRIS.
03/03/2017
The CORAL science team has completed in-water operations in Kanehoe Bay, Oahu. They are now attending and presenting at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, HI.
On Wednesday, February 22, the aircraft team conducted flight FL03, collecting 7 lines over Kaneohe Bay and parts of the Big Island and Maui.
Coverage for the first three science flights conducted to date. Also, FlightAware tracks for FL03, flown on Wednesday, 2/22/17, are shown in the lower left corner.
02/27/2017
The CORAL science team has begun in-water operations in Kanehoe Bay, Oahu. The team is based at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) on Coconut Island. On Thursday, February 16 the first science flight was initiated and PRISM collected 10 science flight lines over coral reefs around Kauai, Ni’ihau, and Oahu. On Friday, February 17, the second science flight was initiated and PRISM collected 12 lines over parts of Moloka’i, Lana’i, Maui, and Kaho’olawe.
02/27/2017
Last week, both the PI and PM, continued overseeing the GLISTIN-A readiness for the upcoming OMG GLISTIN-A 2017 campaign, which will start on March 6.
02/27/2017
The GLISTIN-A Ka-band radar completed a successful mission to the Big Island of Hawaii to study topography change of Kilauea volcano on Thursday, February 16. The mission consisted of 3 flights on February 11, 12, and 15 to produce a base map of most of the island, and to obtain repeat observations in the areas of active lava flows from the east rift zone of Kilauea volcano. The JSC G-III returned to Colorado on February 18 to continue its support of the SnowEx mission, 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. Two flights have been completed this week on February 20 and 21, in conjunction with the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO).
02/27/2017
The Classic AVIRIS (AVIRIS-C) is deployed to Marine Corps Base Hawaii on Oahu with other NASA ER-2. The campaign is the HyspIRI Airborne Preparatory Campaign for Volcanos and Coral Reefs. The campaign is scheduled to complete on March 3. The campaign started with 90 flight hours, and to date over 55 hours have been flown.