Proposed MASTER Flight Lines And Operations Details For EOS Joint Calibration /Validation Exercise 17 January 1999

Two flight lines were selected, one in the North East of the Salton Sea and one in Ivanpah playa.  The information for these line are:

North East Salton Sea
38   degrees 32 minutes 6 seconds North
115 degrees 58 minutes 1 second West
and
38   degrees 28 minutes 49 seconds North
115 degrees 54 minutes 14 seconds West

Ivanpah Playa
Center point of 35.550 N and 115.385 W at a
heading of 170/350 degrees (north to south or south to north does not
matter) with a flight length of +/- 6 km from that center point.

The proposed plan is for flying these lines on 17 January

Plan for the 17 January 1999

Start the Salton Sea line at low altitude, 2 km (approximately 5 m/pixel) followed by two addition flights of the same line at 4 and 8 km (approximately 10 and 20 m/pixel) with about 15 minutes between lines. Time center the middle 4 km line on the time of the Landsat acquisition at 17:54 UTC. (That's 9:54 AM Pacific Standard Time). Following the Salton Sea flights, fly the Ivanpah line at the medium altitude (4 km) and high altitude (8 km).