Airborne Instrumentation

NSF/NCAR airborne platforms (C-130 and GV) are equipped with fuselage apertures of different shapes and sizes to accept optical windows or structural plates that serve as mounting locations for a variety of remote sensing instruments, gas or aerosol inlets or other sensors. Large, interchangeable instrumentation pods can carry optical particle probes, active and passive remote sensors and in-situ sensors. Wing tip pylons can carry canister-mounted sensors. Structures at fuselage top and bottom provide additional capacity for hemispheric radiometers and other sensors.

This page serves as a hub for access to information on the available airborne instruments not just from EOL but from a variety of organizations. Use links on the left to obtain information on specific instruments available for request for the C130, GV (HIAPER) and U. of Wyoming King Air.

More details on these instrumentation interfaces are available in the aircraft investigator handbooks for the C-130 and the GV.