The ORNL DAAC recently released the following nine new MASTER (MODIS/ASTER) Airborne Simulator datasets:
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2009
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2010
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2011
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2012
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2013
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2014
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2015
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2017
MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) campaign, California, 2018
These datasets include Level 1B (L1B) data products from the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument collected and developed by the Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). The spectral data were collected from flights flown over southern California, U.S., in a NASA DC-8 aircraft from 2009 to 2015, and includes datasets from 2017 and 2018 as well. SARP was an eight-week summer program for junior and senior undergraduate students to acquire hands-on research experience in all aspects of a scientific campaign using airborne science laboratories. Data products include L1B georeferenced multispectral imagery of calibrated radiance in 50 bands covering wavelengths of 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers at approximately 20-meter spatial resolution. The L1B file format is HDF-4.
The MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) is a scanning spectrometer which flies on a variety of multi-altitude research aircraft and provides data similar to the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). MASTER first flew in 1998 and has ongoing deployments as a Facility Instrument in the NASA Airborne Science Program (ASP). MASTER is a joint project involving the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF) at the Ames Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS).
Additional data from MASTER and other relevant links can be found on the ORNL DAAC's MASTER project page.
Citations:
Ustin, S.L., and J.P. Ryan. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2009. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1990
Ustin, S.L., J.P. Ryan, and J.S. Myers. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2010. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1989
Kudela, R., J.S. Myers, and S.L. Ustin. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2011. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1974
Ustin, S.L., R. Kudela, and J.S. Myers. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2012. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1983
Ustin, S.L., R. Kudela, and J.S. Myers. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2013. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1967
Kudela, R., S.L. Ustin, and J.S. Myers. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2014. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1961
Kudela, R., and S.L. Ustin. 2021. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1958
Kudela, R., D.A. Roberts, R.O. Green, and S.J. Hook. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) Campaign, California, 2017. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1949
Roberts, D.A., and R. Kudela. 2022. MASTER: Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) campaign, California, 2018. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1946