MASTER Pacific Rim Airborne Multispectral Imagery from 2000

Fifty spectral bands of calibrated radiance data were collected during 46 flights over the Pacific Rim from July to October 2000. The MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument aboard a NASA DC-8 aircraft captured georeferenced imagery at approximately 25-meter spatial resolution. This campaign was the first to operate the MASTER and Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AirSAR) instruments simultaneously for cross-instrument analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyzing vegetation health and land surface temperature using 50 bands of calibrated radiance.
• Coastal and geological mapping with georeferenced imagery at 25-meter resolution.
• Cross-sensor validation and analysis by correlating MASTER data with simultaneous AirSAR measurements.
• Studying topographic effects on spectral signatures across diverse Pacific Rim ecosystems.

Strengths

• Contains data from 46 separate flights, providing wide spatial sampling.
• Offers 50 spectral bands covering a broad wavelength range from 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers.
• Includes ancillary data such as flight paths, instrument configuration, and browse images for context.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, file sizes, and a complete column list are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date, listing both 2000-10-23 and 2026-03 13.
• Primary data is in HDF-4 format, which may require specialized tools for access and processing.

Provenance

Source

NASA DC-8 aircraft flights using the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument.

Collection Method

Airborne remote sensing campaign (Pacific Rim 2000/PacRim II) collecting Level 1B georeferenced data.

Time Range

2000-07-21 to 2000-10-23

Freshness

2026-03-13 00:47:16.776970

Geography

Pacific Rim, including Alaska, California, Hawaii, islands of the south and western Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, southeast Asia, South Korea, and Japan.