NASA's Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is an eight-week summer internship program for rising senior undergraduate students to acquire hands-on research experience in all aspects of a scientific field campaign. Active since 2009, SARP uses one of the flying science laboratories from NASA's Airborne Science Program to study Earth system processes, calibration/validation of space-borne observations, and prototyping of instruments for satellite missions.
SARP participants assist in the operation of airborne instruments to sample atmospheric gases and to image land and water surfaces in multiple spectral bands. Students also collect measurements from field sites. Research areas include atmospheric chemistry, forest ecology, air quality, and ocean biology.
For more information about the MASTER datasets for SARP, please refer to the MASTER project page. For more information regarding the LVIS datasets for SARP, please refer to the NSIDC project page. Both MASTER and LVIS data are available under the SARP Project on Earthdata Search.
For more information regarding the AVIRIS Facility Instruments, please refer to the AVIRIS project page, which provides links to access data for AVIRIS-C, AVIRIS-NG, and AVIRIS-3.
Project DOI: 10.5067/SUBORBITAL/SARP/DATA001
