The NASA ER-2 aircraft was deployed to southern Africa between August 17 and September 25, 2000 as part of the Southern Africa Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI) 2000. This aircraft carried a sophisticated array of multispectral scanners, multiangle spectroradiometers, a monostatic lidar, a gas correlation radiometer, upward and downward spectral flux radiometers, and two metric mapping cameras. These observations were obtained over a 3200 x 2800 km re- gion of savanna, woody savanna, open shrubland, and grassland ecosystems throughout southern Africa, and were quite often coordinated with overflights by NASA's Terra and Landsat 7 satellites. The primary purpose of this sophisticated high altitude observing platform was to obtain independent observations of smoke, clouds, and land surfaces that could be used to check the validity of various remote sensing measurements derived by Earth-orbiting satellites.


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    Title :

    Remote Sensing of Smoke, Land and Clouds from the NASA ER-2 during SAFARI 2000


    Contributors:
    M. D. King (author) / S. Platnick (author) / C. C. Moeller (author) / H. E. Revercomb (author) / D. A. Chu (author)

    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    44 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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