BOREAS ER2 Aircraft Flight Logs

Summary:

During 1994 and 1996, digital and analog imaging instruments mounted on the 
NASA ER2 aircraft collected various remotely sensed data from the atmosphere 
and earth’s surface as part of the BOReal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) 
Intensive Field Campaigns (IFC).  Personnel from the NASA Earth Resources 
Aircraft Program within the High-altitude Aircraft Branch at NASA Ames Research 
Center (ARC) compiled and published logs that document the BOREAS ER2 missions.  
These are standard flight reports that the ARC personnel produced routinely 
during their tenure.  The suite of instrumentation that flew onboard the ER2 
during the 1994 and 1996 flights included:

AOCI          - Airborne Ocean Color Imager
APS           - Aerosol Particulate Sampler
Daedalus TMS  - Daedalus Thematic Mapper Simulator
LAC           - Large Area Collectors
AVIRIS        - Airborne Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer
MAS           - MODIS (MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)
                Airborne Simulator (50 channel configuration)
Wild-Heerbrug RC-10 Photogrametric Mapping camera

Contact Information:

Jeffrey A. Newcomer
Raytheon ITSS
NASA GSFC
Greenbelt, MD
(301) 286-7858
(301) 286-0239 (fax)
Jeffrey.Newcomer@gsfc.nasa.gov

Jaime Nickeson
Raytheon ITSS
NASA GSFC
Greenbelt, MD 
(301) 286-3373
(301) 286-0239 (fax)
Jaime.Nickeson@gsfc.nasa.gov

Flight Log Descriptions:

Each of the hardcopy ER2 flight logs or ‘blue books’ (so named because of their 
blue covers) from 1994 and 1996 provide flight designations, dates, times, 
instrument manifest, instrument operation summaries, aerial photography 
summaries, and flight line maps.  The information contained in these reports 
along with inventory files of data created by BOREAS Information System (BORIS) 
personnel should be helpful in assisting users find the data that they need.

Data File Descriptions:

BORIS staff compiled information from the ER2 flights into a relational data 
base and then extracted the information defined in the data definition file 
(er2flog.def). 

The data files contain numerical and character fields of varying length 
separated by commas. The character fields are enclosed with a single apostrophe 
marks. There are no spaces between the fields. Sample data records are shown in 
the companion data definition file (er2flog.def).

Sample Data Record:

Sample data format shown in the companion data definition file (er2flog.def).

Data Access:

Contact for Data Center/Data Access Information:

These BOREAS data are available from the Earth Observing System Data and 
Information System (EOS-DIS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed 
Active Archive Center (DAAC). The BOREAS contact at ORNL is:

ORNL DAAC User Services
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(865) 241-3952
ornldaac@ornl.gov
ornl@eos.nasa.gov

Procedures for Obtaining Data:

BOREAS data may be obtained through the ORNL DAAC World Wide Web site at 
http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/ or users may place requests for data by telephone, electronic mail, or fax.

Output Products and Availability:

Requested data can be provided electronically on the ORNL DAAC's anonymous FTP 
site or on various media including, CD-ROMs, 8-MM tapes, or diskettes.

The complete set of BOREAS data CD-ROMs, entitled "Collected Data of the Boreal 
Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study", edited by Newcomer, J., et al., NASA, 1999, are 
also available.

Document Information
     Written: 28-June-1999
     Revised: 28-July-1999
     BORIS Review: 30-June-1999

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