Scientists in the Field
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- Edited by:
- Emily S Watkins
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- Produced by:
- Emily S Watkins
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- Ryan Fitzgibbons
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Video compiliations of NASA scientists and partners working in the field. Available to download.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Editor
- Emily S Watkins (Intern) [Lead]
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Producer
- Emily S Watkins (Intern) [Lead]
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Project support
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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ID: 14222 B-Roll
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ID: 13610 Produced Video
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ID: 13519 Produced Video
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ID: 13490 Produced Video
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ID: 13436 Produced Video
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Read moreThe Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) is a scanning LIDAR developed and used by NASA for observing the Earth’s topography for several scientific applications, foremost of which is the measurement of changing Arctic and Antarctic icecaps and glaciers. It typically flies on aircraft at an altitude between 400 and 800 meters above ground level, and measures topography to an accuracy of better than 10 centimeters by incorporating measurements from GPS (global positioning system) receivers and inertial navigation system (INS) attitude sensors.The GPS ground station is an integral part of ATM operations. Having ground station data allows us to do differential GPS post processing and more accurately calculate the position of the aircraft.The ground station consists of 3 GPS receivers, an iridium notch filter, 4 port passive splitter and a netbook computer to download the data. The system has the ability to track both GPS and GLONASS constellations and is battery backed up for 24 hours of operation without power input. One of the GPS units operates at a low recording rate (logging once every 30 seconds) continually during a campaign. This data is used to calculate a resolved position for the GPS antenna. The other units record at 10hz during aircraft operations. ||
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ID: 13437 Produced Video
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ID: 13447 Produced Video
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ID: 13454 Produced Video
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ID: 12905 Produced Video
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ID: 12496 B-Roll
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Read moreSnowEx is a NASA led multi-year research campaign to improve measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow.Five aircraft with a total of ten different sensors will participate in the SnowEx campaign. From a base of operations at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, SnowEx will deploy a P-3 Orion aircraft operated by the Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. A King Air plane will fly out of Grand Junction, Colorado, while high-altitude NASA jets will fly from Johnson Space Center in Houston.The planes will carry passive and active microwave sensors that are good at measuring snow-water equivalent in dry snow, but are less optimal for measuring snow forests or light snow cover. The campaign will also deploy an airborne laser instrument to measure snow depth, and airborne sensors to measure surface temperature and reflected light from snow.Data acquired from the SnowEx campaign will be stored at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and will be available to anyone to order at no cost, as is the case with all NASA data.For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions ||
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