The 28 March 2017 Ivanpah GOES-R field experiment was performed concurrently with an overflight of NASA’s ER-2 high altitude research aircraft with AVIRIS-NG on board.

This report has been assembled with the presumption that consumers will have had experience in vicarious calibration experiments and analyses.

Questions about instrumentation, field methods, and the analytical reduction of raw field data to the intermediate products of the attached report can be directed to:

mark.c.helmlinger@jpl.nasa.gov

Notes:

Sunphots: 35.605429   -115.406220
Est. Baro: 920mB
ASR 24 had a loose azimuth shaft, no useable data
ASR 23 OK

Some cirrus in the AM collect, some dust in the AM
Sky clear in the PM collect, much less dust, see videos

AM with Mercury walking with Spectralon panel
Nolte operating ASD Blue (170328b)
Blue am spectra > 300 not useable – all the same – No standards or all standards - am data reduced in three groups of 100 collects each 
Blue pm spectra reduced into one mean target spectrum
Red pm spectra only, also reduced into one mean target spectrum

PM spectra collected using leveled Spectralon panel on tripod
Mercury operating ASD Blue (170328c)
Nolte operating ASD Red (170328a)

Tarp size: 25x53 feet
South tarp 35 .60285   -115.40388
North tarp 35.60466   -115.40266
Playa target area size:
240 meter spacing between blue tarps, north to south
40 meter east to west

Attached:
Site Description
ER-2 Green cards
ASR 23 Reduced Optical Depths
ASD Red Reduced Reflectances
ASD Blue Reduced Reflectances
Photos and Videos