Instruments (48 projects)
Graduated Projects are Highlighted in Blue

Principal Investigator	Institution	Project Title
Abshire	Goddard Space Flight Center	ASCENDS Lidar: Acceleration and demonstrations of key space lidar technologies
Abshire	Goddard Space Flight Center	CO2 Laser Sounder for ASCENDS Mission - Technology Development and Airborne Demonstration
Cofield	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	A deployable 4-meter 180 to 680 GHz antenna for the Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder
Diner	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Aircraft deployable UV-SWIR multiangle spectropolarimetric imager
Diner	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Shortwave infrared polarimetric imager for aerosol and cloud remote sensing
Durden	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	A Multi-parameter Atmospheric Profiling Radar for ACE (ACERAD)
Durham	Harris Corporation	An 8-40 GHz Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements (WISM)
Fatoyinbo	Goddard Space Flight Center	EcoSAR The first P-band Digital Beamforming Polarimetric Interferometric SAR instrument to measure Ecosystem Structure, Biomass and Water
Folkner	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Laser Ranging Frequency Stabilization Subsystem for GRACE II
Fu	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Ka-band SAR interferometry studies for the SWOT mission
Hair	Langley Research Center	Integration of HSRL Measurement Capability into the Ozone DIAL System for Deployment on the NASA DC-8
Hall	The Aerospace Corporation	Mineral and Gas Identification Using a High-Performance Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
Heaps	Goddard Space Flight Center	Novel Laser Approach for Precision CO2 Column Measurement
Hook	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	HyTES: A Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer for HyspIRI-TIR Science
Hook	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Prototype HyspIRI Thermal Infrared Radiometer (PHyTIR) for Earth Science
Hostetler	Langley Research Center	Modification of HSRL and RSP for ACE, GEO-CAPE, and Glory Applications from the NASA P-3
Kavaya	Langley Research Center	Airborne Demonstration of an Autonomous Operation Coherent Doppler Lidar that is a Precursor to a Space-Based Wind Profiling Instrument
Koch	Langley Research Center	Showing the Utility of the Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar (DAWN) for Wind Energy Applications
Kopp	University of Colorado/LASP	HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS)
Kopp	University of Colorado/LASP	A Hyperspectral Imager to Meet CLARREO Goals of High Absolute Accuracy and On-Orbit SI Traceability
Lambrigtsen	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Risk reduction for the PATH mission
Lambrigtsen	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	GeoSTAR Technology Development and Risk Reduction for PATH
Leitch	Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	Prototype Sensor Development for Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GEO-TASO) for the GEO-CAPE Mission
Li	Goddard Space Flight Center	ER-2 X-band Radar (EXRAD) for Cloud, Precipitation and Wind Measurement
McClain	Goddard Space Flight Center	Development of an Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) Prototype
McGill	Goddard Space Flight Center	Enhancements to the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) ISS and Airborne Instruments
McGill	Goddard Space Flight Center	Integration of Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) to high-altitude research aircraft
Meister	Goddard Space Flight Center	A Flight-like Prototype of the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA)
Mlynczak	Langley Research Center	Absolute Calibration of the FIRST Instrument
Mlynczak	Langley Research Center	Calibrated Observations of Radiance Spectra from the Atmosphere in the far-InfraRed - CORSAIR
Moller	Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc	The Airborne Glacier and Land Ice Surface Topography Interferometer (GLISTIN-A)
Neil	Langley Research Center	Infrared Correlation Radiometer Fabrication and Characterization as Applied to the GEO-CAPE Decadal Survey Mission
Obland	Langley Research Center	ASCENDS CarbonHawk Experiment Simulator (ACES)
Papapolymerou	Georgia Institute of Technology	Development of Lightweight, 3-D Integrated X-Band Radar Antenna Using SiGe Chips and RF MEMS Circuits For Snow Accumulation Measurements
Racette	Goddard Space Flight Center	Antenna Technologies for 3D Imaging, Wide Swath Radar Supporting ACE
Reising	Colorado State University	Development of an Internally-Calibrated Wide-Band Airborne Microwave Radiometer to Provide High-Resolution Wet-Tropospheric Path Delay Measurements for SWOT
Revercomb	University of Wisconsin-Madison	A New Class of Advanced Accuracy Satellite Instrumentation (AASI) for the CLARREO Mission
Rodriguez	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	AirSWOT: the SWOT Cal/Val Platform
Sander	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer Engineering Model (PanFTS EM) Instrument for the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission
Sander	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer (PanFTS) Instrument for the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission
Schmidt	University of Colorado, Boulder	Integration of the Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer on NASA aircraft with a miniature active leveling platform
Singh	Langley Research Center	Development and Integration of a Pulsed 2-micron Direct Detection Integrated Path Differential Absorption Lidar for CO2 Column Measurement from Airborne platform
Stek	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	A Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder for Studying Fast Processes in the Troposphere
Tucker	Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	Development and Demonstration of an Optical Autocovariance Direct Detection Wind Lidar (OAWL)
Valle	Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	Multi-Slit Offner Spectrometer
Weimer	Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	An Advanced Imaging Lidar for Forest Carbon Studies
Yu, Anthony	Goddard Space Flight Center	Efficient Swath Mapping Laser Altimetry Demonstration
Yu, Nan	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Atomic Gravity Gradiometer for Earth Gravity Mapping and Monitoring Measurements

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