11 July 2002   (Flight #CF179) Aircraft Flight Summary Date: 11 July 2002 Time (Flight): 14:33 to 21:32 UTC Time (Data): 15:26 to 18:24 UTC Aircraft Type: Proteus Aircraft Flight Scientist: Prof. Bill L. Smith Aircraft Flight Number: CF179 Mission Location: Florida Lat/Lon Coverage: 24.72-26.85N, 80.54-81.71W Navigation Statistics: Only during acquisition

Flight Track Map AirPOLDER Data Summary Principal Investigator: Dr. Jerome Riedi Co-PI: Dr. Didier Tanre Spectral Bands: Configuration Calibration Type: Preliminary

Imagery from AirPOLDER Instrument Animation and Quicklook of successive acquisition from POLDER.

Scenes 2080-2150 : RGB Composite including 864 polarized channel (above) and 864nm greyscale (below)

Goals of Flight:

Accomplishments of Flight:

Location:

Weather Conditions:

Instrument Problems:

1. Looks like Christian Verwaerde was able to isolate the instrument from some interferences that caused some cyclic reset of the instrument head. During the 3 hours period where the instrument worked, only one period of cyclic reset was observed. However, after 3 hours of acquistion, the head was reset 10 times and never responded. At that time the acquisition system was shutdown and never reboot.
2. POLDER shutdown at 18:24 and didn't restart.
3. It has been deciced that for the next flight, the instrument will be powered from the same 28V DC as the NASA pod to try to isolate POLDER as much as possible from RSP.
   
4. At this point, Scaled doesn't recognize any problem in their electrical configuration, nor potential interference with RSP heaters.
5. POLDER team will pursue investigations on potential instrument failures.

RGB QUICKLOOK

R=864nm G=765nm B=443nm

Flight Log  by Jerome Riedi  based on flight card from Mike Alsbury

Proteus Flight Log
Time (UTC)	Activity
15:26:20	First POLDER acquisition
15:30	Very High thin cirrus below with BKN deck below
15:39	ER2 underpass : Proteus -> N --- ER2 -> S
15:39 15:43	A1 turned south
16:12	WB57 in left turn directly in front of Proteus
16:13	ER2 overpass + WB57 contrail
16:15	Over WGS, approximate coincidence with WB57 and ER2
16:16	Over WB57 contrail
16:18	Crossing coastline
16:40	Approaching top of cell
16:53	Over another cell
17:06	WB57 passes 6 miles off, right side headed north.
17:29	WB57 passes 6 miles off, left side headed south, Proteus headed north
17:36	ER2 6 miles off right wing, headed south.
17:45	coincidence with WB57
17:55	ER2 Overpass
18:14	ER2 overpass off right wing 6 miles
18:19	Lots of cirrus below
18:24:13	POLDER system shutdown improperly and didn't restart.

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