NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is an eight-week summer internship program for rising senior undergraduate students to acquire hands-on research experience in all aspects of a scientific field campaign. Active since 2009, SARP utilizes one of the major NASA Airborne Science Program flying science laboratories that are used to study Earth system processes, calibration/validation of space-borne observations, and prototyping of instruments for possible satellite missions. Participants assist in the operation of instruments onboard the aircraft to sample atmospheric gases and/or to image land and water surfaces in multiple spectral bands. Students also participate in collecting measurements at field sites. Research areas for SARP include atmospheric chemistry, forest ecology, air quality, and ocean biology.

For SARP Ground files please visit SARP Documentation.

For more information regarding the MASTER datasets for SARP, please refer to the ORNL MASTER Project Page: ORNL MASTER Data . For more information regarding the LVIS datasets for SARP, please refer to the NSIDC Project Page: NSDIC LVIS Data . Both MASTER and LVIS data are available under the SARP Project on Earthdata Search.

For more information regarding the AVIRIS Facility Instruments, please refer to the ORNL AVIRIS Project Page: ORNL AVIRIS Project Page . This page provides information and links to access data for AVIRIS-C, AVIRIS-NG, and AVIRIS-3.

Project DOI: 10.5067/SUBORBITAL/SARP/DATA001