The Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) campaign focused on what role phytoplankton plays in the carbon cycle between the ocean and the atmosphere. SABOR had one deployment over the northwestern Atlantic Ocean during the boreal summer of 2014. Measurements were taken of phytoplankton with airborne and shipborne instruments. These measurements were supplemented by measurements taken from fixed water-based platforms. SABOR results have contributed to the development of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.
The High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) is an airborne lidar system developed at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). It utilizes the HSRL technique at 532 nm and the standard backscatter technique at 1064 nm to provide profile measurements of aerosol backscatter, extinction, and depolarization. The profiles of aerosol backscatter and depolarization have a typical vertical resolution of 30 m and a horizontal resolution of about 1 km. For the extinction profiles, the vertical resolution is 300 m with a horizontal resolution of about 6 km. HSRL is typically flown on investigations to validate observations from the CALIPSO spaceborne lidar.
Earth Science > Spectral/engineering > Lidar > Lidar Depolarization Ratio
The Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) is an airborne, passive polarimeter developed by SpecTIR Corporation. It measures total radiance and linear polarization across 9 spectral bands in the visible and infrared wavelengths (410-2250 nm). These measurements can be used to derive aerosol and cloud properties. RSP has a time resolution of 0.8 seconds, a field of view of 14 mrad, and a horizontal resolution of about 100 m at an altitude of 5 km.
