The MPIR Radiometer was built as part of the ARM-UAV program and has been part of three flight series, S96, F96 and F97. The images below will graphically show this process. Retrieving aircraft position and attitude data at time of each MPIR scan. Combining the MPIR scan with the computed ground track in order to map each data pixel to a specific latitude and longitude on the ground.
Scans begin at bottom of image and progress upwards.
Each scan is separated by 0.5 seconds of flight movement. Notice distortions due to aircraft attitude changes Aircraft pitch during data collection. Aircraft roll during data collection. Path of aircraft during the 5 minutes of data collection. Sample of pixel element ground tracks during data colletion.