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To submit a flight request for the Gulfstream III aircraft that carries UAVSAR on its flights, please register and log-in to the NASA Airborne Science Program Flight Management System.

A Grumman Gulfstream III (G-III) business jet has been modified and instrumented by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to serve as a multi-role cooperative research platform testbed for a variety of flight research experiments.

To ensure high interferometric correlation for deformation measurements, the platform must repeat the trajectory within a specified tube (red and blue aircraft above). Electronic beam steering will compensate for the different aircraft yaw angles between passes.

High resolution topographic mapping or tomographic imaging studies may also be supported by flying well defined baselines on a trajectory displaced by a spatial baseline from the reference trajectory as illustrated by the purple aircraft.