MASTER: Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx), Spring 2026

This dataset includes Level 1B (L1B) data products from the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) instrument. Spectral data were collected during 10 flights aboard a NASA ER-2 aircraft over California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, US, from 2026-03-17 to 2026-04-24. As part of the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx) mission, NASA's Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) and MASTER instruments were used to collect the measurements over the country's arid and semi-arid regions to map portions of southwest US for critical minerals. Data products include L1B georeferenced multispectral imagery of calibrated radiance in 50 bands covering wavelengths of 0.460 to 12.879 micrometers at approximately 50-meter spatial resolution. The L1B data is provided in HDF-4 and KMZ formats. In addition, the dataset includes the flight path, spectral band information, instrument configuration, ancillary notes, and summary information for each flight, and browse images derived from each L1B data file.