NASA Langley Science Team ‘Delighted’ with Early SABOR Data

A team of researchers from NASA's Langley Research Center recently spent almost three weeks testing the waters — literally — from an airplane as part of a collaborative field campaign called Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research, or SABOR.

NASA Langley team members Richard Hare, left, and David Harper aboard Langley's UC-12. The team used an instrument called High Spectral Resolution Lidar, or HSRL-1, to collect data on the vertical distribution of phytoplankton in the Atlantic Ocean.
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