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NASA UAVSAR: An airborne research team focuseson Andean volcanoes

This false-colour image of Peru's Ubinas volcano was acquired onApril 14, 2014, by NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle SyntheticAperture Radar (UAVSAR).

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Located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the city ofArequipa, Ubinas is Peru's most active volcano.

UAVSAR flew exactly the same flight path over Ubinas in 2013.

By combining the images from the two years, researchers willproduce detailed maps of surface motions that can improvemodels of volcanic deformation.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A NASA-developed airborne imager called a synthetic aperture radar

took a detailed look at volcanoes in Central and South America during

an Earth science study in late April and early May 2014.

The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar(UAVSAR), developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in

Pasadena, California, was flown on NASA's C-20A.

The 29-day deployment ended May 6 when the aircraft returned to its

base in Palmdale, California, after 19 flights totaling 97 hours in the

air.

This is the second consecutive year the UAVSAR team has conducted

a campaign to study sites in Central and South America.

Many of the flights imaged the Andean volcanic belt located in

western South America.

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"By combining images acquired in 2013 with the 2014 images,

researchers will produce detailed surface motion measurements to

improve volcanic deformation models," said Naiara Pinto,

JPL's UAVSAR science coordinator.

NASA's C-20A features a high-precision autopilot designed and

developed by engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center,

Edwards, California, allowing the aircraft to fly the same flight lines

this spring as those flown in 2013 within 15 feet (4.5 meters) or

closer.

With the autopilot engaged, the synthetic aperture radar is able to

acquire repeat-pass data that can measure land-surface changes

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within fractions of an inch (centimeters).

NASA's C-20A aircraft crew preparing for flight from TocumenInternational Airport in Panama City, Panama.

The aircraft was deployed to Central and South America for aresearch study using JPL's UAVSAR airborne radar, located inan underbelly pod (note red cover).

Credit: NASA/Armstrong Flight Research Center

In coordination with the volcano studies, the agency's C-20A gathered

data over Amazonian forests in Peru, agricultural sites in Chile and

glaciers on the Chilean/Argentinian border.

All of these research projects involve Latin American institutions,

including universities and hazard monitoring agencies.

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