Flight Lines and Images

November 15 , 2000

15 November 2000

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Flight Line Endpoints

Science Crew: Jessica Britt (data logger), Paul Bissett (instrument operator), and Bob Steward

Weather: cold and windy on the ground, blue skies with a little haze

0856 EDT

Camera on, Computer on.

1000 EDT

Take off.

Run #	Flight Line	Start/ Finish	Altitude (ft)	Speed (kts)	Lens	Bin by	Frame Rate	Frame Count	Comments
00	Dark	0936				4		1142	Waiting for camera to stabilize
01	Dark	0947				4		1984	Waiting for camera to stabilize
02	Data					4		2606	Data collection of Tarmac itself. Assuming it is a diffuse reflector. Bob Stewart was collecting data from the spectralon plaque. He may be in the field of view of sequence 01 of run 02. Then shot underneath window at seq. 01-02, run 02. Also saw shadow on field of view (image) during run 02.
03	Dark	1004				4		1263	Camera stabilizing
04	Dark	1008				4		1356	Camera stabilizing
05	Dark	1012				4		1282	Buffer appears to be filling up much more rapidly than in previous runs.
06	Both came ras going	1016				4		1279	Bob took reflectance measurements with the spetrix. Bob put down camera for a few seconds. Had a problem, so he rebooted.
07	Both came ras	1017				4		1281	Bob again took reflectance measurements.
08	Dark	1019				4		1125
09	Test seque nce					4		201	Test to see if we have the spectralon plaque in the field of view or not.
10		1024				4		263	Also test to see if spectralon plaque was in field of view.
11		1025				4		1981	Simultaneous shot of spec. plaque on black camera bag.
12	Dark	1028						1260
13	Dark	1119	Climbing to altitude					1088
14	Dark	1122	Climbing to altitude					2110
15	30-4	1134	15000	150				4392	John's lines. Went to 155 kts, then back to 150 during seq. 02-03. Rotated camera up so we could make up for the nose being tilted 1-2 degrees. By the end of the line, the nose was 3 degrees up.
16	Dark	1139	15000	150				1421	We had a tail wind so we sped up to get rid of the vibration.
17	30-1	1150	15000	143 & increas ed up to 150.				5016	John's lines. Hit 150 kts at sequence 03.
18	Dark	1155	15000	150				1495
19	4 to 1	1220	15000	149				13580	Bob is taking reflectance measurements again during sequence 00-01.
20	Dark	1234						1136
21	4 to 1	1252	15000	150				13632	There was now a 20 degree angle on the camera. Had to move the GPS antennae, lost signal.
22	Dark	105	Climbing	Climb ing				1185
23	4 to 1	124	30000	300				6877	Again, Bob is taking reflectance measurements during seq. 00-02. A little turbulence.
24	Dark	132	30000	300				1255

Other notes:

GPS stopped working for a little while when we rotated the camera.

Beautiful weather.

Looked like it was low tide a lot of places.

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