Low altitude double pass imaging flight over the SAF between Tejon Pass and Cajon Pass

On Dec 29, 2009, a nadir-viewing flight was carried out on a fixed-wing aircraft. The flight track covered the SAF between Lake of the Woods (west of Tejon Pass) to I-15 in Cajon Pass. One goal was to obtain imagery of Lone Pine Canyon east of Wrightwood which had recently burned in the Sheep fire, thereby exposing ground that is normally covered by heavy brush. After completing the flight and performing a quick-look validation, it was clear that the double pass flights produce valuable complimentary (~150 and ~450 m AGL) data sets, and made efficient use of expensive flight hours. Total cost: $1556.50. About 22Gb of data in the form of 3762 ~6Mb images were obtained. The exif portion of each image contains GPS information about the camera's location. The same day, all images were made publicly available on this website. The image quality is excellent.