Superior National Forest Project

The Campaign

The Superior National Forest (SNF) project was a NASA-led campaign that focused on evaluating the usefulness of remote sensing techniques in measuring biophysical parameters such as Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Net Primary Productivity (NPP) in boreal forests. SNF consisted of two deployments during 1983 and 1984 in the Superior National Forest located near Ely, Minnesota. NASA’s C-130 aircraft and its Bell-jet Ranger helicopter were used in conjunction with JSC’s Cary-14 instrument to either retrieve or analyze samples taken from the forest. SNF was funded by the NASA HQ Land Processes Branch.

Additional Notes

Repositories

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL)