Airborne Science
- See 2017-2019 for Flightlines
- See "Data" tab for all datasets
This dataset provides a listing of the ~6,700 field sites used in planning the ABoVE Airborne Campaign (AAC) for 2017. The sites included point, polygon, and line locations that were used in determining the 2017 AAC flight paths. We intend this compilation to assist investigators in understanding the flight line choices and as a method for investigators to identify ground locations used in the airborne campaign. Data users may also search for the underlying data available at each of these locations. Site descriptors include name, coordinates, principal investigators with emails, data types, long-term archive locations, and links to project descriptions.
Hoy, E.E., P. Griffith, C.E. Miller, and ABoVE Science Team. 2018. ABoVE: Directory of Field Sites Associated with 2017 ABoVE Airborne Campaign. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1582
NASA conducted AVIRIS-NG flights during July 21 through 18 August, 2018. Primary mission was to obtain imagery over areas that were not imaged in 2017 due to weather conditions. Some flights were flown in "methane mode" over regions known or suspected to have high methane emissions.
In the KMZ: GREEN = science quality data; YELLOW = partial cloud/smoke/other imperfections (parts of the line may be good); MAGENTA = unusable/unacquired lines.
NASA conducted L-Band SAR (UAVSAR) flights during 18-31 August of 2018, repeating lines flown during the 2017 campaign to establish a multi-year time series. Sites included the BERMS site in Saskatchewan, the Peace-Athabascan Delta, road-accessible sites near Yellowknife and Inuvik, and a subset of sites in Alaska and Yukon that were of greatest interest to the SAR Working Group. New flight lines were planned and executed in coordination with the German Aerospace Center (see below). The BERMS sites was flown in TomoSAR mode.
The DLR flew their F-SAR instrument over regions of the ABoVE Domain in the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan in August 2018. DLR and ABoVE will share airborne and ground validation data from the coordinated collections at the Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites (BERMS) in Saskatchewan and at the Baker Creek watershed near Yellowknife, NT.
During the active flight season, the NEON project flies two Airborne Observation Platforms (AOP) to collect data across NEON field sites. See the NEON Airborne Remote Sensing webpage.
In the KMZ: GREEN = science quality data; YELLOW = partial cloud/smoke/other imperfections (parts of the line may be good); MAGENTA = unusable/unacquired lines.
Statistics for the AVIRIS 2019 ABoVE Airborne Campaign
- Campaign Duration: 36 Days (30 June – 4 August)
- Number of Science Flight Days: 27
- Number of Sorties: 37
- Number of flight hours: 129
- # lines acquired: 193 (this number will increase given some lines were flown multiple times)
- Est km of flight lines: 15,712 km (see column U, this number will increase given some lines were flown multiple times)
- Est number of sq km mapped: 51,850 km2 (see column W, this number will increase given some lines were flown multiple times)
Once archived, all ABoVE Airborne Campaign data will be available through the NASA Earthdata web portal here: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search
Tutorial to access ABoVE Airborne data available here: https://daac.ornl.gov/resources/tutorials/search-above-data/
Foundational
Instrument | Year | Data Product Download | Searching Instructions |
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L-Band SAR | 2017 2018 2019 |
UAVSAR |
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P-Band SAR | 2017 | UAVSAR |
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LVIS | 2017 2019 |
NSIDC |
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AVIRIS-NG | 2017 2018 2019 |
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G–LiHT | 2018 | G-LiHT Webpage |
PI Instrument
Instrument | Year | Data Product Download | Searching Instructions |
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AirSWOT | 2017 | Archived at the ORNL DAAC | 4 AirSWOT datasets available. |
CFIS | 2017 | Preliminary data available | Data archive in process at ORNL DAAC. |
ArcticCAP | 2017 | Archived at the ORNL DAAC | 2 Arctic-CAP datasets available. |
ASCENDS | 2017 | Available at LaRC Airborne Science Data | |
ATom | 2017 | Available at the ORNL DAAC |
Partner Instruments
Instrument | Availability | Data Product Download |
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NEON | Now |