Coweeta 2024

An Instrument performance checkout flight was flown over the Coweeta LTER and Oak Ridge areas in TN/NC on 9 September 2024 out of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (Wallops Island, VA)


Flight trajectory and camera imagery KMZ files are available for download below.


Use the python code posted here to view the data products from this mission.

LVIS Mission Information

LVIS Mission Information
Instruments: LVIS-Facility, LVIS-Camera1, LVIS-Camera2
Flight Platform: NASA WFF P-3B Orion
Nominal Flight Altitude: 8,000 m
LVIS Lidar LVIS-Facility
Nominal LVIS Swath Width: 1.6 km (200 mrad)
Nominal LVIS Footprint Diameter: 15 m (2.136 mrad)
Data Products: LVISF1B, LVISF2
LVIS Cameras
Instrument: LVIS-Camera1 LVIS-Camera2
Camera Model: PhaseOne iXM-RS150F Canon EOS 5DS R
Lens Models: Rodenstock 180 mm Canon EF 28mm f/1.8
Image Resolution: 150 Megapixels
14,204 px x 10,652 px		 50 Megapixels
8,688 px x 5,792 px
Nominal Resolution: 2.4 km x 1.8 km
(0.17 m/px)		 10.3 km x 6.9 km
(1.18 m/px)
Nominal Overlap: 60% 87%
Data Products: OLVIS1A_CAM150MP OLVIS1A_CAM050MP

Resources

Data Products

LVIS Data Products Format Download Location
LVIS L1A Camera ImageryKMZ with browse JPGsThis page (see below)
LVIS L1A Camera ImageryJPG*NASA EarthData, NSIDC1
LVIS Facility L1B Geolocated WaveformsHDF, LDS 2.0.3TBA
LVIS Facility L2 Elevation and Height ProductsASCII TXT, LDS 2.0.3TBA

1 At NSIDC, search for date 09 Sep 2024

*Image position and attitude embedded in exif data.



View MJD Date Region / Remarks GPS Flight Trajectory L2 Gridded KMZs† Camera Imagery (KMZ)†
CAM150MP CAM050MP
60562 9 Sep 2024 Coweeta [kmz] TBA [kmz] [kmz]

†Warning: Gridded and Photo KMZ files are large and may take some time to load in Google Earth