NASA P-3	photo by Tom Jackson

The NASA P-3 aircraft, operated by NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, participated in the SGP97 experiment from June 18 to July 18, 1997. All P-3 flights were conducted at the same altitude (approximately 7 km) avoiding the need to re-calibrate the radiometers for different thermal environments. The same flights were conducted daily and were plotted to fly directly over the critical sampling sites.

Following is the instrument complement for the NASA P-3 aircraft during SGP97

Mapping L band (ESTAR) passive microwave Single beam dual polarization C band radiometer Single beam split window thermal infrared Radiometer (SWTIR) Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE)

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