HyspIRI Airborne Preparatory MissionLarge Area Mapping In California

Benefits to Remote Sensing of the Delta

Ian.B.McCubbin@jpl.nasa.gov970.819.2842

The NASA Earth Science Division within the Science Mission Directorate solicited proposals using airborne measurements resulting from planned airborne campaigns in FY2013 and

FY2014. For these campaigns, NASA will fly the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) and the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instruments on a NASA high-

altitude aircraft to collect precursor datasets in advance of the Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) mission. NASA solicited proposals that would use these airborne data to address one,

or more, science or applications research topic aligned with the science questions for the HyspIRI Mission. A goal of this solicitation was to generate important science and applications

research results that are uniquely enabled by HyspIRI-like data, taking advantage of the contiguous spectroscopic measurements of the AVIRIS, the full suite of MASTER TIR bands, or

combinations of measurements from both

AVIRIS and MASTER on ER-23 Seasonal Flights in 2013 and 2014

Datasets to Simulate Future HyspIRI SatelliteFlights Over California Based from NASA Dryden Palmdale CA

AVIRIS-C

DCS MASTER

ER-2 will fly at 65,000 ft to collect spatial resolution of 20 m AVIRIS and 50 m MASTER data over large area of CA

HyspIRI Airborne Flightsin 2013 on ER-2 over Bay Area and Delta:

Spring 3/27-4/23Early Summer 5/22-6/10Late Summer 8/15-8/29Early Fall 9/9-9/20Late Fall 10/7-10/18

Weekly Call to discuss following weeks activities coordinate field teams

Daily 0630 AM and 1300 Weather Briefs during flights go/no go decision in morningupdate on next days flights in afternoon

Opportunity for Delta Collections during HyspIRI Airborne Flights in 2013:

AVIRIS and MASTER will be ready on aircraft

Flying Large Boxes will be a challenge due to weather

Weather over Delta can be very different than Bay

ER-2 can fly at 28,000 ft for:

8 m resolution AVIRIS data with 5 km swath and 21 m resolution MASTER data with 16 km swath