The Next Generation AVIRIS (AVIRIS-NG) has been conducting an airborne survey of methane sources in California.  Last week there was a coordinated flight with the Scientific Aviation Mooney aircraft (Tail Number N2123X) over sites in SF Bay Area.   The Mooney aircraft has in situ methane gas analyzers and performed low level spirals above methane sources, while the King Air flew at 10,000 ft with the AVIRIS-NG to remotely sense the sources areas.

The next generation AVIRIS (AVIRIS-ng) has been flying the CA Methane Airborne Survey on the Dynamic Aviation King Air.  Flights have been conducted in the Southern CA, San Joaquin Valley and the Bay Area.  There have been coordinated flights with the CIRPAS Twin Otter which is flying a Navy Wind Lidar. 

The Classic AVIRIS (AVIRIS-C) has completed the 2018 flights season on the NASA ER2.

AVIRIS Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) began flying a CA Airborne Methane Survey on the Dynamic Aviation King Air.    A PG&E controlled methane release was flown with AVIRIS-NG near Barstow, CA and there was a coordinated flight with CIRPAS Twin Otter that was flying an Airborne Wind Lidar. 

AVIRIS-C has completed the ER-2 missions for 2018.

The Classic AVIRIS (AVIRIS-C) has been flying on the NASA ER-2 as part of the HyspIRI TIR Data collection with HyTES.

The Next Generation AVIRIS (AVIRIS-NG) had a successful week of flights in Alaska for the NASA ABoVE campaign.  The 2019 ABoVE campaign is now complete.

The Classic AVIRIS (AVIRIS-C) flew a successful flight over the San Francisco Bay HyspIRI CA Box on Thursday with the NASA ER2. 

AVIRIS-NG is flying out of Zurich over target sites for both University of Zurich and the European Space Agency. The instrument has been operating nominally and the campaign has been moving along without any issues. We expect the flights for this year to end around mid-July.

The Classic Airborne and Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS-C) and the Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM) are both deployed on the NASA ER2 to Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) on Oahu. The campaign is the HyspIRI HyTES Hawaii Campaign (H3C) and there have been collections over both the Big Island Volcano targets and coral reefs in the main island chain.   

On Thursday, 26 October, Miles Obrien from the PBS News Hour filmed a story on the California Airborne Methane Survey. It was a successful filming, and he was able to fly with the team during data collections and interview Riley Duren and Andrew Thorpe during the flight. As part of the story, there will be filming of the AVIRIS-NG King Air by AFRC in the next week to collect video of the AVIRIS-NG aircraft from the AFRC T-34. The California Airborne methane Survey is winding down, and the AVIRIS-NG has some collections over the Sacramento Delta in the next week

The Next Generation Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS-NG) is currently collecting data for the CA Methane Survey.