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There will be no AIRSAR data flights during the 2001 calendar year. This is due to the long PacRim 2000 deployment that occurred at the
end of fiscal year 2000 and the beginning of fiscal year 2001. During PacRim 2000, over 60 hours of AIRSAR data were collected and
2001 will be largely devoted to the processing of these data. In addition, we are looking at making some upgrades to the AIRSAR
instrument hardware, much of which has not been replaced since the system was built in 1985.
Flight requests submitted for the 2001 calendar year will be deferred to 2002 when we will try to accomplish as many of them as possible.
The flight schedule for 2002 is posted at the NASA Dryden web site (http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/airsci/dc85yr.html) although updates to
this schedule can occur on a frequent basis. The tentative plan for 2002 is a US deployment in the midwest in the March-April timeframe,
with a possible deployment to Central and South America later in the
year. We will use this space to keep the community informed of any changes as they occur.
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