1 Suborbital Science Program Airborne Remote Sensing of the SF Bay NASA Ames Research Center University of California Santa Cruz Airborne Science & Technology Laboratory San Francisco from NASA U-2 at 65,000 ft, 1972

2 Why Airborne Imagery? Spatial Resolution Comparison 50m (AOCI from ER-2) 1Km (SeaWiFS Pixel Size) [San Diego Sewage Plume] Ames ASTL

3 First NASA U-2 Image of San Francisco Bay (Sept. 4, 1979) ER-2 Aircraft at low altitude

4 Ames Research Center San Francisco From 65,000 ft (1972) San Francisco ER-2 AOCI Image (50 m.)

5 San Pablo Bay Water Color ER-2 TMS Image, c. 1986

6 San Francisco Bay Surface Temperature (ER-2 MAS Thermal Infrared, 3/27/04, 50m) Ames Research Center

7 Thermal Plume from Hunters Point Power Plant (C-130 NS001, c m.) Thermal IR (water) + Natural Color (land) Ames Research Center

8 Bair Island Area MASTER 3/13/2000 (for USGS Wetland Research Center)

9 AVIRIS Hyper-Spectral Data Cube of South Bay (1997, 20m) Courtesy of JPL

10 Newark Quad Wetland Mapping Project ( NASA/EPA/USFWS, 1985)

11 Extreme Low Tide, Showing SAV NASA U-2 Color Infrared Photograph, 1975 (PI: Chavez, USGS)

12 IMAGE CLASSIFICATION MAP OVERLAID ON 3-meter Ortho-rectified TMS Data Northern Puget Sound, Washington Eelgrass beds (Zostera Marina) Using an Airborne Thematic Mapper Simulator at Extreme Low Tide NASA/EPA

13 The New UAV-AMS Ocean Color Imager Band Center Wl, nm 1 412* 2 443* 3 490* 4 510* 5 555* * 8 770* 9 860* um *SeaWiFS Bands Aircraft Platforms: Altair or Global Hawk UAV, ER-2, WB-57, B200, Cessna Caravan SeaWiFS Bands + Thermal IR for SST Variable Resolution (2 – 50 meters) Automatic Geo-Referencing Highly Calibrated Ames ASTL The General Atomics Altair UAV

14 Recent Flight Test Data From the UAV-AMS (Autonomous Modular Sensor) (April 20, 2006) Sky Research Cessna 208 Caravan (OK, not a UAV – but a lot cheaper!) AMS Spectrometer & Scan Head

15 Guadalupe Slough (8 m.) Natural ColorThermal IR

16 Dumbarton Bridge Area (8 m.) Natural Color Thermal Infrared

17 Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (8 m.) Natural Color Thermal IR

18 Stevens Creek Outlet (8 m.) Natural Color Thermal IR

19 Sacramento Delta - Liberty Island Levee Breach NASA AMS Sensor 4/20/06 2 m. resolution) Natural Color Thermal IR Sacramento Deep Water Channel

20 Sacramento River Delta Area Frank’s Tract Thermal IR (2 m.)

21 Towards an Integrated Sensor Web for Coastal Observations… Courtesy MBARI