Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) 2024

In summer 2024, NASA's LVIS Facility supported the Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) on the NASA P3-B, collecting surface elevations and structure data over sites on the US East and West Coasts. Opportunity-only data were also collected during transits to and from bases. LVIS-F and two camera sensors were installed for the flights (see mission information tables below for further details)


Flight trajectories are available on this page.


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

LVIS Mission Information

LVIS Lidar
Instrument: LVIS-F (1.16 mrad)
Flight Platform: NASA P-3 Orion
Nominal Flight Altitude: 7,000 m
Nominal Footprint Diameter: 8 m
Data Products: LVISF1B, LVISF2
LVIS Cameras
Camera Model: PhaseOne iXM-RS150F Canon EOS 5DS R
Lens Models: Rodenstock 180 mm Canon EF 28mm f/1.8
Image Resolution: 150 Megapixels
14,204px x 10,652px		 21 Megapixels
5,616 px x 3,744 px
Nominal Resolution: 1,600 m x 1,000 m
(15 cm/px at 7,000 m AGL)		 7,100 m x 4,700 m
(160 cm/px at 7,000 m AGL)
Nominal Overlap: 67% 67%
Data Product: LVIS_CAM150MP LVIS_CAM020MP

Resources

Airports

  • KWAL - Wallops Flight Facility (Wallops Island, VA, USA)
  • KONT - Ontario International Airport (Ontario, CA, USA)

Data Products

LVIS Data Products Format Download Location
Flight TrajectoriesKMZThis page


View MJD Date Region / Remarks GPS Flight Trajectory L2 Gridded KMZs† Photo KMZs†
CAM150MP CAM020MP
60487 26 Jun 2024 SF11 [kmz] [kmz] [kmz]
60488 27 Jun 2024 TR03 [kmz] [kmz] [kmz]
60492 01 Jul 2024 SF12 [kmz] [kmz] [kmz]
60493 02 Jul 2024 SF13 [kmz] [kmz] [kmz]
60494 03 Jul 2024 TR04 [kmz] [kmz] [kmz]
June-July 2024 All Flights [kmz]

*Preliminary LVIS Coverage locations are generated shortly after a flight and based on quicklook product information and are intended for general guidance only.
Key: Red=0%, Pink=1-10%, Orange=10-20%, Yellow=20-50%, Green=50-100%
†Warning: Gridded and Photo KMZ files are large and may take some time to load in Google Earth