Airborne Instrumentation

NSF/NCAR airborne platforms (C-130 and G-V) 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, G-V (HIAPER) and University of Wyoming King Air.

More details on these instrumentation interfaces are available in the aircraft investigator handbooks for the C-130 and the G-V (HIAPER).