Description

The Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX) 4 focused on the study of tropical cyclone (hurricane) development, tracking, intensification, and landfalling impacts using NASA-fundend aircraft and surface remote sensing instrumentation. These aircraft flew over, through, and around selected hurricanes as they approached landfall in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and along the East Coast of the United States. This study yields high spatial and temporal information of hurricane structure, dynamics, and motion. The data set contains the measurements collected by the MAS instrument onboard the ER2 aircraft. The MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) is an airborne scanning spectrometer that acquires high spatial resolution imagery of cloud and surface features from its vantage point on-board a NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft. The MAS spectrometer acquires high spatial resolution imagery in the range of 0.55 to 14.3 microns. A total of 50 spectral bands are available in this range. A 50-channel digitizer which records all 50 spectral bands at 12 bit resolution became operational in January 1995. The MAS spectrometer is mated to a scanner sub-assembly which collects image data with an IFOV of 2.5 mrad, giving a ground resolution of 50 meters from 20000 meters altitude, and a cross track scan width of 85.92 degrees.

DOI

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Citation Styles for this Dataset

Resources and Documentation

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Earthdata Forum

PROJECT HOME PAGE

CAMEX-4 home page

Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator (eMAS) Project Home Page

NASA Airborne Science Program Overview of CAMEX 4

MAS CAMEX-4 Project Home Page

NCAR EOL CAMEX4 Project Home Page

VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

DATA CITATION POLICY

• How to cite ASDC data

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

• ASDC Data and Information for CAMEX-4
• ASDC Data and Information for MAS
• MAS Spectral Response Summary

HOW-TO

• HDF Read: a program to demonstrate how to read a MAS HDF file containing SDS's and Global Attributes
• Readme to read the CAMEX_ER1_MAS data file

READ-ME

• Readme file for the CAMEX-4 ER2 MAS Data Set

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION

• CAMEX_MAS Sample read software for netcdf formatted science Data Sets - Direct File Download (.c)
• NCSA HDF Software Development Group Fortran header file for HDF routines

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