Survey of Airborne Sensors

Abstract

Airborne observations with dedicated instruments have their own history in contributing to advances in the Geosciences and to extend our general knowledge in many fields, including the numerous surveys for resources. These observations simply cannot be regarded an appendix to spaceborne observations, as one might assume with virtually all the publicity on the spaceborne front; rather, airborne observations have a wide field of applications of their own, they are also the most efficient means by which laboratory- and ground-based observations can be extended to observations from space. The science community requires data on the local, regional, and global scales for an understanding of the overall picture ³⁷⁵⁾