GOES-R PLT AVIRIS Airborne Radiance and Reflectance Data

April 11 to May 14, 2017 data from the AVIRIS instrument flown on a NASA ER-2 aircraft. This dataset contains radiance, reflectance, water phase, and navigation measurements collected to validate the GOES-R satellite's ABI and GLM instruments post-launch. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides the data in ASCII, binary, and JPG browse imagery formats.

Use Cases

• Validating Level 1B and Level 2+ products from the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager using airborne radiance measurements.
• Assessing the performance of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper through correlated airborne campaign data.
• Analyzing atmospheric water phase properties from hyperspectral reflectance data.
• Conducting geospatial navigation analysis for flight path alignment with satellite observations.
• Developing or testing algorithms for converting raw spectral radiance to surface reflectance.

Strengths

• Data supports a critical post-launch validation campaign for two major satellite instruments (ABI and GLM).
• Covers a focused 34-day time period (April 11 - May 14, 2017) with high-altitude aircraft measurements.
• Provides multiple data products including radiance, reflectance, water phase, and navigation.
• Available on multiple government platforms (Data.gov and NASA Earthdata), indicating recognized importance.

Limitations

• Exact row count, file size, and detailed column schema are not provided by any source.
• Sources disagree on the last update date, with one listing 2017-05 14 and another listing 2026-03-13.
• The license is ambiguously listed as 'other-license-specified' without explicit terms.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Data gathered by the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument aboard the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft.

Time Range

April 11, 2017 through May 14, 2017

Freshness

2026-03-13 01:48:55.790394

Geography

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